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...Gene Hackman's police partner in The French Connection and proved he could be vulnerable as choreographer Joe Gideon in Bob Fosse's semiautobiographical All That Jazz, a role for which he had to learn to dance. The film, Scheider's favorite, won him critical raves and another Oscar nod. He was 75 and had blood cancer...
Other hotels are designing sleep amenities to fit their individual personalities. At La Mansion del Rio in San Antonio, handcrafted worry dolls are placed in rooms every night, a nod to Yanaguana folklore, which promises that your cares will evaporate by dawn if you transfer them to the dolls as you sleep. The Milliken Creek Inn & Spa in Napa Valley, Calif., offers a package that includes the Good Night Sleep Kit by Deepak Chopra. And at the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego, the "vibe manager" will create a playlist of mellow music (ranging from Simon and Garfunkel to Morcheeba...
...GORE An Obama nod from Bubba's Veep would be a tough blow to Clinton's campaign...
Huckabee has little chance of actually winning the nomination. He would have to win each one of the next primary contests with better than 50% of the vote just to keep McCain short of the 1,191 delegates needed to nab the G.O.P. nod. And even then, it is unlikely that a brokered convention would work out in his favor. Remember, the only Republican whom traditional conservative leaders distrust more than McCain is Mike Huckabee. (This distrust might stem from Huckabee's independence from traditional conservative organizations; the Club for Growth's opprobrium means little to his loose coalition...
...presentation. Theron held a pink stuffed animal, but she soon flung it at the duo when they began to recall her earliest work as an actress. Eachus and Andersson then called Theron to the stage and asked her to identify an alien among three Pudding actors—a nod to the 1999 film, “The Astronaut’s Wife,” in which Theron’s character does not realize her husband is an alien until the end of the film. Next, a Pudding actor impersonating Keanu Reeves came out to taunt Theron...