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...Golden Globe-winning star of “Sex and the City” and the actor of “Die Hard” fame will travel to Cambridge this February to accept their “pudding pots” and to be “roasted” by the theatrical group...
...fought my way up the Lhotse Face, traversed the Geneva Spur, hauled myself up the Hillary Step and finally, after two-and-a-half months, struggled onto the summit of Everest, it was impossible to shake the feeling that I was surrounded by ghosts. The recent fame of modern Sherpa climbers like Apa Sherpa, who has reached the summit 11 times, and Babu Chiri Sherpa who, before he was killed in 2001, completed a speed ascent in less than 17 hours, rests on decades of accumulated knowledge and sacrifice by the Sherpas who came before them: men like Tenzing Norgay...
...Rock Steady," No Doubt's fifth album, finds the band impressively easing into its proper role as ambassador of a good time. "Hella Good," one of a number of tracks on the album produced by the accomplished Nellee Hooper (of late U2 and Bjork fame), sounds like an eighties roller-rink party. The good time flashbacks don't end there. "Don't Let Me Down," produced by Ric Ocasek, with its Cars-like bass line, spacey keyboards and layered vocals is the perfect melding of the best of what both the eighties and No Doubt have to offer...
Murphy’s name has surfaced in several other circles as well. The Baseball Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2002 yesterday. Murphy and Gary Carter fell just a few votes shy of election...
...been a precipitous fall for Joseph ("Erap") Estrada, the playboy who rose to fame as a movie star and then garnered infamy as a President. Of his legendary appetites, for women, drink, gambling, food, he can now only assuage the latter. And while he sits before a table groaning with his favorite dishes?plates of lechon and cheese, vats of bird-fetus soup and sweet rice-paper rolls, all hustled across town from the fully staffed kitchen of his family home?he tries to conjure his old enthusiasm, to reawaken the fire that he rode to his populist successes...