Word: thorntons
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...challenge will likely fall on the shoulderpads of senior forward Michelle Thornton (12 g, 17 a), who is coming off of an ACL injury but should be ready to play when the season starts. With the departure of Kelly McManus, who transferred to Boston College, Thornton is the only proven scorer on the team...
...somewhere along the line, things got screwed up this year. In May, Angelina Jolie was all over the place. Angelina talking about how earth-shattering her sex with Billy Bob Thornton was, Angelina yakking about how she loved self-mutilation, Angelina making out with her brother. But her reign as It Girl ended and Hollywood scurried to find a new subject for ink when she went to film Tomb Raider in London and disappeared from public view...
Although Bankhead appeared in a few acclaimed films, notably Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat and Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, she is now better known for her personality. Her drawled "Hello, Daaaaahling" and her never ending flow of conversation, punctuated by quick draws on a cigarette, became fixtures in the drawing rooms (and bedrooms) of many a London and New York society home. She once bragged about having had over 5,000 lovers, and she was romantically linked to many public figures in her lifetime, including Winston Churchill, Leonard Bernstein and Greta Garbo...
...child of Sophia Loren and Ringo Starr. Even those feet...well, they have character. The one thing she lacks is American renown, and that's sure to change, considering the movie company she's keeping. The co-stars of her next four films are Matt Damon (in Billy Bob Thornton's All the Pretty Horses), Johnny Depp (in Ted Demme's Blow), Nicolas Cage (in John Madden's Captain Corelli's Mandolin) and Tom Cruise (in Cameron Crowe's Vanilla...
...talk about American music without talking about Black people and Black musical forms. And you cannot discuss Black music without taking it account its edginess (think of bluesman Robert Johnson, bebop innovator Charlie Parker, rocker Little Richard, soulman Otis Redding, et al.), its rebelliousness (anyone from Big Mama Thornton to Jimi Hendrix) and the fact that edginess and rebelliousness ultimately appeals to white young people as much as it does to Black young people. That and "white music" suffering slumps from time to time made the white embrace of hip-hop inevitable - has there really been anything interesting happening...