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TIPPER GORE '80s music scold; now Joe's the prude. H'wood, America digs you. And that dance, that kiss...
...Austin, likes to fall asleep watching sports stretched out on the sofa and has no qualms about leaving a roomful of hands unshaken in favor of downtime. His weekend getaway is 1,600 acres of dusty, dry prairie in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do but chop wood and drive a pickup around to visit the heifers. The nearest outposts of civilization are the remains of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco and the Dr Pepper museum. The closest hotel for the press, computer unfriendly with spotty room service, is 40 miles away. Talk about your suffering...
...Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman), space aliens (the first Star Wars and Men in Black), lycanthropes (Wolf and An American Werewolf in London) and dead movie stars. Using a chin cleft and extended ears, he helped Martin Landau turn into Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's Ed Wood. Both won Oscars. "Without Rick's makeup, I couldn't have done it," says Landau...
...columnists and their sins, real or imagined, reminds me of the vicious incompetence of the novice Clinton White House in dealing with its candidates for attorney general. First, there was Zoe Baird, with her untaxed-nanny problem. The Clintons showed her the door and brought in Judge Kimba Wood for an audition. Wood did have similar domestic help, but unlike Baird, had meticulously followed the law in paying taxes. The difference between Baird and Wood was the difference between a person who disobeyed the law and one who obeyed it. In other words, there was no problem. But the slovenly...
...Boston Globe has a problematic history with columnists of late. Two of them - Patricia Smith and Mike Barnicle - have been obliged to leave for very real offenses. Jeff Jacoby is the Kimba Wood here. He has been forced to leave (without pay, for four months) for wholly spurious reasons...