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...Philadelphia" is the first mainstream movie to deal explicitly with the AIDS crisis. But don't let that throw you off--this is not a preachy movie, not dull or morose. It is so fascinating, so touching that witnessing the movie is a cathartic experience. Maybe Hollywood has finally recovered that skill to tell tales well...
Give the idea 20 years. It's 2014, and Marion B. Gammill, president of the United North American Free Trading States trots out to the mound at Dodger Stadium to throw the first ball for Game 1 of the World Series between L.A. and the new expansion team from Kuala Luampur...
...celebrity rooms several weeks a year, such as Harry Blackstone Jr., David Copperfield and, yes, Penn & Teller. Then there are the close-up guys who sit at your table and do tricks and jokes right in your and your date's collective face -- like the amazing Mike + Skinner. Throw in all the comics making condom jokes while sticking needles through balloons at the brick-wall comedy clubs, and you probably have two or three dozen magic acts working Vegas as I type...
...Jerome Allen, the 1993 Ivy League Co-Player of the Year. Allen leads the team in scoring (at 16.6 points per game) and nearly engineered an upset of Massachusetts in the first round of the NCAA tournament in 1993. He also shoots a deadly 89 percent from the free-throw stripe and collects 5.5 rebounds per game, good for second on the team...
Mais non, says Montignac, who doesn't believe in worrying about calories. "Conventional low-calorie diets are among the great scientific swindles of the 20th century," he maintains. "We should sweep away scruples and allow our epicurean instincts full rein." Susan Powter would surely throw down her barbells, but such appealing heresy has made Montignac Europe's newest diet guru. His book Je Mange, Donc Je Maigris! -- I Eat, Therefore I Slim -- dominated France's best-seller lists for an unprecedented 106 weeks, selling 1.1 million copies and leading to translations in five other European countries and Japan...