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...Woody Allen classic Sleeper, Allen's character, a health food store owner, awakes in the future to discover that everything considered bad for you - namely smoking and eating deep-fried foods - was actually beneficial to your health. What with all our present-day scientific "revelations" about what's bad (or good) for us, I've always believed it was only a matter of time before the premise of Sleeper began to materialize in the real world...
...play those teams to get better for the league...Our goal is to win the Ivy League and I think we have a great shot this year.” The Crimson opens its Ivy League schedule this Friday against Dartmouth in its first game in the Crimson Classic at Lavietes Pavilion. —Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...dusk one evening, after shooting has finished for the day, the crew and producers gather for drinks against the red-brick colossus of an abandoned beer factory. A white-haired musician in a Hawaiian shirt plays classic rock. "There is going to be a lot of competition here in the future," Nemeth says. "New money typically wants glory. And there's plenty of new money here. With all due respect to this great city and this great culture, the reason to make movies here - it's the money." Just then, one of the Russian grips goes over the edge...
WHEN CONFRONTED WITH SUCH GLOOMY talk, many in the real estate business offer a classic response. "People don't buy real estate on a national basis," says Tom Kunz, CEO of real estate giant Century 21. "They buy it on a local basis." Sure enough, many parts of the country aren't in trouble. Prices are still rising in Seattle and Portland, Ore. In Atlanta, Dallas and Charlotte, N.C., prices never went up all that much, and they're not falling now. The same appears to be true in many smaller cities and towns...
...melodramatic sulfur of the mad mom in one of David Sedaris' "memoir" stories, the domineering vindictiveness of a shrew-mother from 40s movies. In fact, she's played in the film by none other than Ann Savage, the virulent megabitch Vera in Edgar G. Ulmer's cheapo noir classic Detour. That was 62 years ago, and now, at 86, she is the icy Queen Maddin, standing in for all the city's overbearing women. (As narrator, he says, "Never underestimate the tenacity of a Winnipeg mother"). Still she pops up unbidden in her filmmaker son's memories. Again she quizzes...