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...metaphor for the Soviet Union. Others contain casting advice, such as the suggestion that Kirsten Dunst replace both child actor Jake Lloyd, as young Anakin Skywalker, and Natalie Portman, as Padme Amidala, in the prequel films. "I know this is possible," says a writer named Duke, "since Jean-Claude Van Damme has done it. lf Van Damme can do it, Mr. Lucas, then Kirsten can, and much, much better...
...doesn't expound on her husband's five-point plans; she just tells her story, whose bass notes are the deep hum of family, work, sacrifice, aspiration. You can watch her in her triple pearls, hear about her love of mac and cheese and reruns of The Dick Van Dyke Show and imagine her as the most traditional First Lady since the ones named Bush...
...After this, all that's needed is the induction of Jean-Claude Van Damme to justify a name change to the Legion of Bad Taste," says comic author and France Inter radio commentator Didier Porte of Dion's selection. "The Legion is now the way powerful politicians honor people for having attained celebrity and fame. It's basically now the manner in which VIPs get together to smell one another's behind...
...could you have overlooked Pope Benedict XVI? Henry Van Wassen, PITTSBURGH...
...medics' homemaking ingenuity is not confined to the "kitchen". The open ground between the bunkers and their sleeping quarters has been turned into a veritable apres-combat lounge. Faux leather car seats, taken out of a van that was turned into an ambulance, are lashed to empty missile containers. A coffee table made from a slab of concrete balanced on artillery boxes is appointed with an i-Pod and speakers. A parachute, rescued from an airdrop of food supplies and stretched over a frame of scavenged bamboo provides welcome shade in the 42-degree centigrade heat. Perched on a ledge...