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More perilous still, we see Allen re-writing his tabloid sins at an age (he'll be 60 this year) when he looks like a pensive Rumpelstiltskin; boyish roguery ill suits him. In TV revivals of Broadway farces, he plays crabby geezers: the tourist with tsuris in Don't Drink the Water, a decrepit comic in a new version of The Sunshine Boys. Yet in his films Allen is the Woody of old--or, rather, of young. To Lenny, the raw, vibrant Linda makes Amanda seem stale and shrewish. Bonham Carter (who's a radiant 29 and certainly doesn...
...Soon the area outside my window will be another tourist trap," he said...
...town that didn't was Navarre Beach, Florida, a tourist village of about 3,000, 20 miles east of Pensacola. Where once pristine 25-ft. dunes rose, there is now a featureless expanse of sand that has swallowed up living rooms, swimming pools, roads and tractor trailers. Seventy-five percent of Navarre Beach's homes were destroyed, swamped by the 15-ft. tidal surge or crushed by the battering of 30-ft. waves. Some structures were reduced to piles of indistinguishable rubble; others simply disappeared, leaving only stubby supports to show where a house once stood. Several homes were lifted...
...This is a big tourist attraction, and I don't think that that's a bad thing," he said. "Having the little artistic booths and whatnot gives a sort of classy image to the whole place...
Perhaps nobody will be happier about the wane of the English tourist season than Prince William. The heir to the British throne just began his first year at Eton, long a side attraction to Windsor Castle. But now, according to British papers, double-decker bus tours slow when they pass the school and local entrepreneurs sell T shirts reading where there's a will...