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...Elmer Gantry she had fallen in love with the film's writer-director, Richard Brooks, whom she married after divorcing Granger. She took a couple years off when they had a daughter, Kate (she and Granger had a son, Tracy - both children named in honor of Simmons' friends Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn); and when she was ready to return to films, her moment had passed. Her enduring glamour, and the tang she put into every line of dialogue, would have made her a welcome presence in sophisticated comedies, but nobody was writing them. Not yet 35, she had become...
...close fourth with $14.5 million. The other new release, Extraordinary Measures, with Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford, earned less than half that. This true-life story, of a father's quest to find a treatment for his two dying children, was the first theatrical feature from CBS Films. Audiences took it for a disease-of-the-week TV movie, and why should they pay for that when they could see the 3-D wonders of Pandora for the first or fifth time...
...chain bookstores opening in cities, airports and hotels across the country. "It all happened pretty quickly: shopping malls came up, big bookshops came up, and people had the spending power," says Anantha Padmanabhan, the head of sales at Penguin India. "In 2003 everything curved upwards. A mass injection took place...
Each sculpture was created by rolling and stacking snow balls into large piles and sculpting them into the desired shapes. The entire living room took four hours to make. Ideally, Kurrasch said, she would have used a trowel—perfect for digging up snow, packing it down, and carving out details. But she didn't have a trowel handy this time, so she used a rock instead—appropriately, it was shaped liked a trowel...
...civil rights era of the 20th century, Census data took on a whole new meaning. The antidiscrimination laws written in the 1960s and the affirmative-action policies that followed relied on Census data to determine if minorities were underrepresented in any number of realms, from home sales to small-business loans. One of the largest leaps in the Census' racial scheme came in 2000 when, for the first time, respondents were allowed to check more than one race box. The change was celebrated by those hoping to usher in an era of postracial America and assailed by those fearing...