Word: touched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Live in 1981 to his current turn in the cop drama Metro, has been a beguiling, exasperating beau. With his horse laugh and his wizardry at impressions, he rose to eminence as the little guy who can take charge. But he became addicted to adulation and lost the common touch. His appeal waned; the comeback attempts proved futile. Until, that is, last summer's The Nutty Professor...
...toast to ALCOHOL--if consumed in moderation. An 11-year study found that middle-aged men who had two to six drinks a week were half as likely to die from heart disease as those who didn't touch the stuff. The drinking did not increase their cancer risk, either. Cheers...
...people who came from wealthy backgrounds. The colliding of those two worlds has always fascinated me. I've met so many people who work in the movies and in TV who come from upper-middle-class New England families, and they're really out of touch with what the rest of the country is thinking. Whenever I see a fast-food place in a movie, it's always some '50s-looking thing or a building with a giant chicken on it. It's so over...
Mystery writer Walter Mosley finished his first novel, Gone Fishin', in 1988, but he couldn't find an agent or a publisher who would touch it back then because they feared that a thriller about working-class African Americans would bomb at bookstores. Then along came Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale. Settling in on the best-seller list for 43 weeks, her tale about four middle-class black women proved there was an audience for commercial fiction by black authors and sent publishers scrambling to find the next black blockbuster. Mosley's second manuscript, Devil in a Blue Dress...
...could hardly touch my morel-sauced salmon, so fixated was I on the dilemma he had placed us in. As the cut-rate Kinsley, I would have to start charging Netly News hounds--what? Nine dollars and ninety-five cents? No way. I happen to know Netly News readers believe in the free lunch. Some have even asked me for small loans...