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...some country hits in the '60s, and in 1968 played Iago in the L.A. production of an "Othello" musical called "Catch My Soul"; he spoke the lines word-perfect, in his deep bayou drawl, and stole the show. "This Shakespeare was really somethin," he told the L.A. Times. "I wonder what he woulda thought of my records...
...refuge of his own in an arc of inaccessible mountains north of Kandahar. It is a place where even a half-blind cleric on the run has factors in his favor: a harsh environment, strong tribal ties, loyal friends and a population increasingly disposed to hate the Americans. Little wonder, says a senior Kandahar police commander, that after months of searching, the coalition forces "are not one inch closer to getting hold" of Omar...
...parents may not have heard of him, members of the hip-hop generation have embraced Diesel so enthusiastically that his per-picture fee is rapidly rising into the $20 million territory. Teens are so excited about seeing him in XXX, a spy movie opening Aug. 9, you have to wonder if they think the title refers to something besides extreme sports. Like The Rock, whose Scorpion King grossed more than $90 million earlier this year, Diesel is also part of a nascent constellation of stars whose melting-pot backgrounds and features seem to be resonating deeply with young moviegoers...
Poor Justine Last (Jennifer Aniston). When she gets home from clerking at Retail Rodeo, her life is even more awful. Her husband (John C. Reilly) is a house painter with a disastrous sperm count. Mostly he sits around stoned, watching inane TV. No wonder Justine starts making eyes at Holden (Jake Gyllenhaal), the cute new guy at work. He has borrowed his name from The Catcher in the Rye, but his soulful air masks a dangerous obsessiveness...
...spate of recent diet-pill-related deaths in Japan touched off a round of criticism directed at the country's health officials, who drew fire for being slow to respond when people started getting sick. "Sometimes I wonder how many people had to die before anyone did anything," says Dr. Masayuki Adachi of Keio University Hospital in Tokyo. The 31-year-old doctor alerted the government in late April when two of his patients, both women, suffered liver failure after taking Chinese diet pills. "I couldn't prove a definitive connection," he says, "but I knew these drugs were very...