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...movie theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side when she cracked up inappropriately. The trailer was for the movie The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and scheduled to open May 19, and it featured a grim-faced fellow uttering Christ's name repeatedly and then--wham!--whaling away at his already bloodied back with an Inquisition-issue cat-o'-nine-tails. It was not an intentionally funny scene. But Heil, who was familiar with the book on which the movie is based, recognized the figure onscreen as the albino assassin Silas, a fanatical, murderous member of a bizarre...
...costs of new parenthood--stretch marks, lost sleep, depleted funds--the most traumatic is to one's ears. You spend years curating a hip CD collection, then--wham!--your life becomes a death march down the Barney highway. Here are half a dozen kids' albums you'll be proud to blast out your minivan windows...
...Kenny Goss, his partner of nine years, at the opening of Goss's new art gallery in Dallas. Yep, Dallas. "There is a refreshing lack of cynicism here," Michael said of his part-time hometown. Despite saying he would call it quits after his 2004 effort Patience, the former Wham! star is rumored to have a new album in the works, about which he's keeping mum. "My stuff can wait," he said. Funny, it was so much easier for Andrew Ridgeley to vanish...
...saturation. "It's hard to get sick of songs you only hear for six weeks," says Bill Conway, manager of KOIT, one of the Bay Area's top stations, whose ratings have climbed during its holiday switch. The Ronettes' Sleigh Ride, sure. But has he heard Last Christmasby Wham!? --By Sean Gregory
...other song ever had so much impact? Do They Know It's Christmas?, the sing-along single recorded by British supergroup Band Aid in 1984 to raise money for starving Ethiopians, was the beginning of a fund-raising phenomenon. The song, which brought together everyone from U2 to Wham! (an achievement in itself), went straight to No. 1 in Britain and raised some $18 million. We Are the World, an even schmaltzier American effort, and the accompanying Live Aid rock concert, which was screened to 1.5 billion people around the globe, raised millions more. Band Aid, the brainchild of scruffy...