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...sing or dance to save his nose ring. We've known that he is a deluded egomaniac who told a fluff biographer that 1969 would be remembered in history as the year Donnie Wahlberg was born. (Wasn't there some inconsequential tidbit about a man on the moon that year, too?) We've known that he is a temperamental prima donna who allegedly attacked some Georgia Tech students whose frisbee had the audacity to land near his motorcycle...
...directors. In Conquering Space, a girl discovers first lust, learns to drive and watches her family fall apart at pre-moonshot Cape Canaveral. In 12:01 P.M., a twitchy corporate flunky has terminal deja vu, condemned to repeat endlessly one hour of a single day. In To the Moon, Alice, a homeless family takes nightly refuge on the comfy set of a TV sitcom...
...with prejudice and artifice, is as old as theater. In Shakespeare's day, Othello was acted by whites -- and Olivier played the Moor - in blackface in the 1960s. In old Hollywood, where nonwhites were nonstars, Caucasians often played Oriental roles. Marlon Brando kowtowed through The Teahouse of the August Moon; John Wayne did a Genghis Khan job on The Conqueror; no Chinese ever played Charlie Chan. As recently as 1984, Linda Hunt won an Oscar playing a half-Chinese man in The Year of Living Dangerously...
...satanism. The Newtons allegedly circulated a flyer claiming that the president of P&G "gave Satan all the credit for his riches" and offering information on "alternative products." For more than a decade, P&G has been bedeviled by the satanism charge. Tales that its 108-year-old moon-and-stars logo was demonic forced the symbol off company packaging. Three previous rumors were traced to Amway distributors, who were repudiated by Amway officials...
...terms, but stressed that the Prime Minister had endorsed the demands under extreme duress, making them nonbinding. "Tricked, double-crossed, whatever you want to call it. It is foolish to quibble with ethics when you are dealing with situations of this kind," said Shaw. "Why not promise them the moon and the stars...