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...push the hot button. But what about Brokeback? Didn?t that film pioneer man-love in a pup tent? Sure, but homosexuality is just not an issue in Hollywood. The town was gay before gay was cool (that would be the summer of 2003, when Queer Eye for the Straight Guy became a brief TV sensation). Indeed, homosexual roles are prize-winning plums for actors-like Hoffman in Capote -as long as they aren?t gay, or, if they are, don?t admit...
Maybe you remember a guy named Armpit from Sachar's last book, Holes? Big, muscular, convicted of assault? You get to know him a lot better in Small Steps. He's out of juvie and trying to go straight as a landscaper-slash-high-school student. Unfortunately his buddy X-Ray (another Holes alum) gets him back into trouble over a ticket-scalping scheme. And when a chance meeting gets Armpit mixed up with a teen pop superstar (the tickets were for her concert), things get complicated. It's a fairy-tale setup, but Sachar gives his characters real emotions...
...media feast was served up by prosecutors trying Gotti Jr., 42, on broad racketeering charges. Made the acting boss of the Gambino crime family when his father, known as the Dapper Don, was jailed for life in 1992, Gotti Jr. insists he has lived on the straight and narrow ever since he was sent to prison for five years in 1999 for racketeering. But U.S. Attorneys think otherwise. That's where DiLeonardo comes in. The convicted Gambino capo-turned-government informer claims Gotti Jr. continued to orchestrate Mob affairs from behind bars. He also fingered Gotti Jr. for ordering...
...Odah v. United States): "Mr. al-Qahtani's statements were elicited in a manner that undermines their credibility entirely. The logs reveal that, with a single day's exception, al-Qahtani was the victim of sleep deprivation that usually lasted a full 20 hours a day for seven straight weeks...
...From there it's straight to the "chromotherapy steam room," where gently pulsing magenta lights are used to "unlock the doors to your inner vision." The spa's signature massage is the Sensory Spa Journey. For 90 minutes two pairs of hands use a personalized blend of aromatherapy oils, to relax, detox or revitalize, all over your body. As you dip in and out of a blissful consciousness, time?with you in it?seems to evaporate. Follow this with ear candling, the ancient Hopi Indian art of using a flame to extract the gunk from your ears, to guarantee...