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...World Wrestling Federation chairman Vince McMahon pulled the plug on commercials for a controversial wrestling documentary that were scheduled to air during UPN's "SmackDown!" and USA Network's "Sunday Night Heat" and "Raw Is War," the movie's producers sensed a bid to kill their film. Imagine Entertainment says McMahon has a case of sour grapes because it wouldn't let him buy "Beyond the Mat," which was nominated for a Director's Guild award in the Best Director category. A WWF spokesman claims it's a publicity stunt, and the company has a policy of not airing "third...
According to Mullins, Al-Thani also met with several California-based energy firms that mine in Qatar, which sits on the third largest natural gas field in the world...
...Third World Cop is not a Hollywood vehicle featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme kicking butt in the poppy fields of some developing country. It's a Jamaican-made police/action drama starring indigenous actors and shot with low-budget digital cameras. The movie is a runaway success on the island, and though it won't be released in the U.S. until later this year, the sound track is in stores this week. The album is an engaging mix of reggae and hip-hop-influenced dance hall. Performers include reggae star Luciano as well as dance-hall acts Beenie Man, Innocent Crew...
...Trinidad that was clearly based on the experiences of Naipaul's father, as well as of his own. But Family Letters provides additional glimpses into Vido's early preoccupation with themes that would later fill his travel writing and fiction, including alienation and the tenuous relationship between the Third World and its Old World colonizers...
...expected him to vanish from the sport. When he lost the Dallas Cowboys, the team he loved, everyone expected TOM LANDRY to move on to another, to lead a different tribe of men to even more victories, even more Super Bowls. After all, Landry was the third most winning coach in the National Football League, after Don Shula and George Halas. But following a graceless dismissal by Dallas' new owner in 1989, Landry remained a silent, mournful football widower, reproachfully if silently carrying a torch for the team that moved on without him to further victories. At his firing...