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...winner, had 21 career starts. Smarty Jones, winner of the Derby and Preakness in 2004, logged only nine. Rank-and-file racehorses start early too but have harder careers. Winter used to be off-season for racing in the U.S., but now horses are trucked to courses where the weather is warmer and the wagering can continue. What's more, U.S. fans have grown to prefer shorter, faster races, so breeders produce animals suited to sprints. The faster you move, however, the harder you can fall...
...Mystique). But it has no secret technology to transform tired ideas into a vivid movie. Instead it ransacks the fantasy-film trunk for hand-me-down thrills, and counts on the sleek beauty of Romijn, Famke Janssen (quite fetching as Class 5 mutant Jean Gray) Halle Berry (the wonder weather woman Storm) to lure the boy market into theaters. For the rest of us, there's the spectacle of Patrick Stewart exploding into particles...
This has been a very mild session of the Cannes Film Festival - not just in the weather, but in the selection of films and the response of the 4,000 journalists here. The films on display in the first week had their partisans and their detractors, without provoking much acrimonious dispute. But reviewers do love to dispute each other, and the world premiere of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette gave us the chance finally to argue over a movie...
...found his comfort zone under the public spotlight. This time he wasn't even scared off, as he was last August, when photographers and cameramen rushed to the front of the papal plane to catch a glance of the Pope just before takeoff. He even talked about the weather: "It doesn't have to be warm, but we just hope it doesn't rain!" he told reporters...
...Number of fatal alligator attacks in Florida since 1948 3 Number of fatal attacks last week; experts say that recent warm weather has made the alligators more active...