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...been touched by the slumping economy. Recycling, which involves about 22% of solid waste, is sensitive to shifts in the prices for recyclable commodities like paper and glass, which have slipped of late. "A couple of years ago, I was getting $210 a ton for mixed office paper," says Butch Michitson, recycling manager for Northeastern University in Boston. "I'd be getting checks every month for $9,000 or $10,000. And I'd be walking into my boss's office saying, 'This is for trash.' Then the markets dried up." Today Michitson gets...
Harvey Fierstein, in drag as Tracy's battleship mom (the role played by Divine in the movie), is Hairspray's showstopping centerpiece. But somewhere between his flouncy scenery chewing (with a chainsaw voice that is now painful to hear) and the familiar gags about uptight parents and butch gym teachers, Hairspray starts to lose its fizz. Making fun of the '50s and '60s has become so passe that this cartoon version gets old pretty fast. The smiley social commentary--Tracy meets the school's black kids in detention and discovers that they have rhythm--only makes the show's facetiousness...
...abused himself with pills and booze for most of his adult life. He nearly died in 1981 from a ruptured stomach. He shot his bass player Butch Owens in the chest - accidentally, it is said; Owens survived. But Lewis's family tree is full of untimely deadwood. His elder brother Elmo was run over by a truck when JLL was three. His eldest son Jerry Lee, Jr., died at 19; car crash. Steve Allen Lewis, his son by Myra, died at 5 in a swimming pool. His fourth wife, Jaren Pate, also died in a swimming pool...
...Fast and the Furious. Now he's back in an even more rickety star vehicle. Full of implausible chase scenes (Ever go skateboarding ahead of an avalanche?), director Rob Cohen's epic is pretty inept, while lacking the idiot intensity that makes for a classically bad movie. Basically a butch La Femme Nikita, XXX has extreme-sports star Xander Cage (Diesel) shanghaied into a U.S. government spy unit to buy hot cars from Russian anarchist Yorgi (hyperemoting Marton Csokas). Yorgi is brilliant enough to create a nerve-gas missile system but not quite smart enough to lock the door...
...never been polarized as a feminine attribute," says Mark McLelland, a sociology professor at the University of Queensland. Last month, a high school student was banned from a judo competition north of Tokyo. Tournament officials were put off by his heavily tweezed face, which they said was "too intimidating." Butch is in the eye of the beholder...