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...Lazy River," "Irresistible You") to original pop stuff ("I?ll Be There," "Multiplication"). A 1973 concert, available on video as "Bobby Darin: Mack Is Back," shows that Darin finally got his wish: if not to be Sinatra, then at least to do him. There he is in his tux, tie eventually unraveled in the Sinatra style, singing some of his old hits and a few of other people?s. Ladies and gentlemen, Bobby Darin -a premature Vegas oldies act. Alas, he never got to become a true oldie. He had suffered from rheumatic fever as a child, and his heart...
...Bruckheimer admits that he went into the movie with little knowledge of Pearl Harbor. "I never took history after high school," he says. And he had no personal tie to the war. His father, a first-generation German immigrant, did not fight in World War II. Instead, Bruckheimer's dad scraped by selling clothes in a fancy Detroit men's store while his son imagined life beyond his meager surroundings. "I could stretch out my arms in my bedroom and touch both walls," recalls Bruckheimer. He escaped to the movies as often as he could and dreamed of making films...
...good news for Microsoft, since Jackson's pursuit of Gates was beginning to resemble Ahab's pursuit of a certain whale. But the bad news is that the appeals court asked for potentially prolonged new hearings on issues, especially the question of whether it was legal for Microsoft to tie its browser to its operating system. The last thing Microsoft wants is to have this case to drag on for years...
...result of all this is a community imprinted with a paisley pattern of psychedelia, a social fabric tie-dyed with a new rebelliousness and swirled with a growing sense of social malaise. "Some kids like to come up to my office to chat," says Muneo Ogishi, owner of the Elephant's Egg, a chain of Tokyo head shops that sells magic mushrooms. "They say they're using the drugs to try and meditate." It seems Japanese youth are looking for something, although it is still unclear exactly what. It is certainly not the social consciousness that drove the original hippy...
...warden of Belgrade's Central Prison entered Milosevic's cell. He was surrounded by several policemen. "Get ready to go," the warden said. When Milosevic asked where, the warden told him, "To the Hague." Milosevic got up, changed out of his track suit and into a jacket and tie and went with the police. A blue-and-white van, commonly used for transporting prisoners, sped past a group of unwitting journalists and headed for a police base in the nearby suburb of Batajnica, where officials from the United Nations' war-crimes tribunal in the Hague were waiting. "They read...