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Their parents, Bill and Wanda Grimes, weren't thrilled when Billie's smack-the-knave impulses propelled her into the Army. She coped with their resistance to her ambition by simply not telling them when she joined the reserves in college. She liked it so much, she signed up for active duty after graduating. Christopher followed her lead, though their parents also opposed his enlistment. Now, with Billie in Baghdad, Wanda, 46, finds herself tensing up every morning at 6, the traditional time that families are notified of military casualties. She and her husband begin and end each day with...
Still, the Grimeses say they experience almost paralyzing fear every time a U.S. soldier dies in Iraq, then gut-wrenching guilt over their relief it wasn't Billie. They avoid the news whenever possible. Wanda's worst moment was seeing, on CNN, a still smoking armored ambulance that had been hit with a rocket-propelled grenade in Baghdad. The vehicle was just like the one Billie drives. "It was all I could do to hold it together and not become hysterical at work," says Wanda, a nurse...
...Kill the infomercials. Rob Lowe and Alicia Silverstone appeared on stage together for no better reason than that each of them has an NBC drama debuting this week. Wanda Sykes - whose sitcom Wanda at Large appears on Fox, which aired the Emmys - plugged her show incessantly. The Emmy Awards do not need to become one giant commercial for the wonders of television. We're watching the Emmy Awards - we're already interested in television. If not, why would we sit through those lifetime achievement awards? On the bright side, the awards brought a promo that millions of Americans were anxious...
...anyone else who suffers from a variety of nature's scourges. The world is full of sick, debilitated and dying people who would feel blessed to know that a doctor could help them find a peaceful and graceful way out?as the Singapore doctors did for the Bijanis. Wanda Allison Valbonne, France...
...always hard to tell from the clips at upfront whether a show will be good (though it's easier to tell a real stinker), but Fox's set is at least more original-sounding than most other networks' (and they look much better than its horrible crop this season, "Wanda at Large" excepted). "A Minute with Stan Hooper" stars Norm MacDonald - as a New York TV personality who moves to small-town Wisconsin to produce a show and finds the locals are less simple than he expects. "Luis" stars character actor Luis Guzman ("Boogie Nights") as the owner...