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Burning Question
The Colonel's Other Recipe
Chicken-fried steak...why?
By Dave Faries
Published: December 19, 2002
This is just an assumption, but it's probably valid. Chicken-fried steak played a key role in President Bush's recent policy victories at the United Nations. Without the Texas...
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Film
Adapt This
If being Charlie Kaufman is no fun, watching Charlie Kaufman is worse
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 19, 2002
Adaptation is the most overrated movie of the year (of all time?) by people who should know better. Film critics have been suckered in by its gimmick (Being John Malkovich...
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Gonzalez
Perfect Fit
Hand it to him: La'Roi Glover excels despite the Cowboys' collapse
By John Gonzalez
Published: December 19, 2002
It's always something out at Valley Ranch, but it's rarely good. This time around, the media pack--I wonder, if pack reporting were outlawed, would there be any sports coverage...
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playlist
Enya
Only Time: The Collection (Reprise)
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 19, 2002
I know, I know--you fell in love with Watermark, fell in love to Watermark or maybe just heard Enya while walking around the mall and thought she was singing to you even though...
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Short Cuts
'Tis a Foine, Foine Loife
In the holiday insta-classic Evelyn, Pierce Brosnan forms a family bond
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: December 19, 2002
People in show-biz do very weird things to prove their credibility. Starlets pose for skin mags, actors start rock bands, rockers become sit-coms, rappers become tombstones,...
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You Said It
Choosing Life
Plus: Kiboshing Kennedy, Not My Downtown, Funk Brothers
Published: December 19, 2002
Choosing LifeTrue convictions: I see four important questions coming out of Nancy DePriest's case ("Lethal Rejection," December 12): 1. What steps are our lawmakers taking to...
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Smashing Pumpkins
Earphoria (Virgin)
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 19, 2002
Now that they've busted up, like Pumpkins smashed on curbs the night after Halloween, it's time to admit most everything post-Siamese Dream was way overrated by the kids who...
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Short Cuts
One Weak Notice
Only die-hard fans of Bullock and Grant need see this predictable comedy
By Jean Oppenheimer
Published: December 19, 2002
It had to happen eventually: the adorably scattered Sandra Bullock and the self-deprecatingly charming Hugh Grant paired in a romantic comedy. As predictable as Miss...
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Whitney Houston
Just Whitney (Arista)
By Mikael Wood
Published: December 19, 2002
Whitney Houston's return after an eight-year absence, 1998's My Love Is Your Love, should not have worked as well as it did: Houston had firmly entered her career's second...
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Ride
OK4: The Best of Ride (The First Time)
By Mikael Wood
Published: December 19, 2002
No. 17 on my List of Things I'd Like to Someday Know: why every other band of young British guys partial to swirly guitars and with a thing for groove eventually ends up aping...
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The Starlings
Christmas Again (Self-released)
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 19, 2002
Otherwise known as Phil "Homer Henderson" Bennison and two other guys (Paul Harrington on harmonica, Stan Ridgway-style; Dick Cordes, brushing drums and ringing bells and...
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Critics' Picks
Lyricist Lounge Tour 2002
December 21
By Justin Hampton
Published: December 19, 2002
For true, hip-hop has put its head to many strange bedfellows as it continues to grow in size, stature and power. Ghetto celebrities and unrepentant criminals share the stage...
