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...there were a Harvard Sports Hall of Fame, Leelee would be in it--if not for her stick, then for her schtick...
...rhetoric, the piece is successful, making Habermas out to be a man obsessed by obtaining a place in history and using philosophy as a tool to achieve fame. But as for engaging a fellow thinker's ideas and trying to come to grips with them, it fails--largely for lack of trying...
...almost four years. But it is not infallible: an additional $1 million enabled the 1985 Singin' in the Rain to survive almost a year, yet apparently did not recoup the show's $5 million- plus investment. Still, says Carrie's composer Michael Gore, whose credits include the movie Fame, "you can't produce a Broadway show without a reserve fund. That is my major dissatisfaction with this show...
Angell argues, quite cogently, that combination of large salaries paid to major-leaguers, along with their youth, sudden fame, and the pressure of demands to produce, is almost a guarantee of high levels of drug and alcohol abuse, and argues convincingly against the unchecked adulation we bestow upon our favorite players...
...offbeat matchup, Jane Amsterdam of upscale magazine fame is named editor of New York' s grittiest tabloid -- the Post...