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...Helms wants to avoid the fate of 98-year-old Strom Thurmond, who has effectively relinquished his duties to an army of aides. Helms fights hard to maintain a vigorous image: Battles with prostate cancer and peripheral neuropathy have compromised his health in recent years, but his often biting wit and political prowess are still very much on display...
...stealing the show with his awe-inspiring performance. At ease with the comic, the tragic, and the romantic moments of one of Shakespeare’s greatest characters, Sack’s incredible skill is on full display. Sack’s genuine delivery and wit combine to make a truly loveable Romeo...
...wit to keep the hard-edged observations in her performances distanced by satire. But a sharp viewer can find them. Even in Legally Blonde, which spins her screen character so genially, a slight chill invades the watcher--all that shrewdness, all that drive devoted to winning not particularly well-considered gains...
...that began 1.8 million years ago, bolstering the theory that modern Chinese are descended from these early men. DIED. WALLACE REYBURN, 87, war correspondent and author of 25 books, including Rehearsal for Invasion, the first-hand account of the ill-fated Dieppe raid of 1942; in London. A deadpan wit, he raised eyebrows with Flushed with Pride, the story of John Crapper, father of the modern toilet and Bust-Up, a spoof biography of the inventor of the modern bra, Otto Titzling. DIED. PAUL MAGLOIRE, 93, dictator of Haiti from 1950 to 1956; near Port-au-Prince. The former general...
...culinary goddess Nigella Lawson, died of cancer in March after writing just six chapters of an "uncomplimentary view of complementary medicine." That unfinished text - cut off, spookily, almost in midthought - is rounded out by an anthology of Diamond's newspaper columns, which show off his first-class deadline wit. (A story about being forced by his Hassidic computer repairman to say the Shema is a classic of the columnists' form.) Even Diamond's accounts of life with cancer can be darkly funny as well as harrowing. But as with all such collections, those stories, written to be read...