Word: warner
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...lesson was not lost on other Democrats. A year later, Mark Warner ardently courted gun owners in heavily Republican Virginia--and cruised to victory in the Governor's race. In this year's excruciatingly close House and Senate elections, many of the hardest-fought races are in Southern and Western states and semi-rural congressional districts, which explains why national Democratic leaders are doing their best to stay away from the gun issue entirely. The idea of gun control is so out of favor that Handgun Control Inc., a leading lobby organization, changed its name last year to the Brady...
...disturbing image, but one that creature designer Nick Dudman calls necessary: "They mustn't have any element of sympathy about them," he says, "because they get chopped up." The U.K. ratings board has slapped Chamber of Secrets with this warning: "Contains mild language and horror, and fantasy spiders." And Warner Bros. even worried that the new film would receive a PG-13 rating in the U.S. - a dangerous proposition since the core consumers for Potter toys, which generated about half a billion dollars in sales last time around, range in age from seven to 11. The studio was relieved when...
Faith Hill is one of the new would-be divas. She's the country one--the sweet blond married to fellow sweet blond Tim McGraw. Hill's previous album, Breathe, sold 7 million copies, which gives her pretty good diva credentials. She's popular, but her new album, Cry (Warner Bros.), proves she doesn't really understand...
...with her latest effort, a psycho road movie called Morvern Callar, Ramsay may finally be positioned for box-office success. Her movie has a riveting - and bankable - young star, Samantha Morton (Minority Report). It has a respectable budget, $6 million, and a hip provenance: it's based on Alan Warner's 1995 cult novel, which was part of a Scottish literary charge that also yielded Irving Welsh's Trainspotting - and that became an international smash-hit movie. And if any further proof were needed that Morvern Callar isn't destined to be just another much-lauded "little film," it wasn...
...both countries become increasingly intertwined, economically and culturally, cross-border health insurance will probably become increasingly common. Says the University of Texas' David Warner: "It will help in the inevitable integration of the U.S. and Mexican medical systems...