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...This effort has much more of the earmarks of a comeback. Hicks has revived the name of his old band for the occasion - although for some reason it's Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks rather than His Hot Licks - and the album is studded with guest appearances from Elvis Costello, Bette Midler, Brian Setzer, Ricki Lee Jones and Tom Waits. But worthy though their contributions may be, they are mostly window dressing; Midler's terrific vocal on "Strike It While It's Hot" notwithstanding, nothing here really needs the star wattage to justify it. Hicks has written a batch...
...took more than brains to get onto the show. Although all the contestants had to pass a 30-question test similar to the "fastest finger" contest, they were ultimately picked based on their "poise, sense of humor and television presence" during videotaped interviews with "Millionaire" producers...
...Although he wouldn't say if he won any money, Andrew said that his friends will be proud of him when they see the show...
...losing their sunny disposition. In dragging the matter to court, we have defaulted to the typically American solution. But are there not other typically American solutions - ones that would be more entertaining?. Why not make it an athletic contest? Gore and Bush both seem to be in good shape - although I sense that Al has let himself go lately...
...advisers had been thinking that way for some time, although they weren't expecting it to happen this way. They'd hoped to first make a peace deal, and then call new elections in which they could present it as a choice between peace and war. If he has an agreement with the Palestinians, it's very realistic that he could win. No matter what people said at the time, if he'd come back from Camp David with a done deal, and sold it as a choice between voting for peace and voting for war, he would probably have...