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The event: The New York premiere of the thriller Enough, starring Latina actress-singer-designer- restaurateur Jennifer Lopez as a waitress who flees from and later has a physical showdown with her wealthy, abusive husband (Billy Campbell, who played buttoned-down Rick Sammler on ABC's critically acclaimed but short-lived series Once and Again).

After enduring as much hardship as Job, the good doctor from ER finally gave in.

As a census reporter for The New York Times, Janny Scott chronicles the living. On September 12, her assignment became the dead.

Hair today, gone tomorrow. That should have been embroidered on a pillow for 60-year-old Liticia Perfecta Perez (1942-2002), a friendly neighborhood granny who passed away while under a large hair dryer at her local salon. It might also be appropriate wisdom when making sense of ''Six Feet's dizzying plotlines and carnival of quirky characters.

How appropriate that 67-year-old Benjamin Srisai was hauling out the family's plastic blue recycling bin when he suffered his fatal heart attack. As a Thai Buddhist, he most likely hoped to be recycled into the next life, though he should pray it's not to be reborn in or around the dysfunctional Fisher clan, where all of a sudden kids are an emerging theme.

Spider-Man is the best big-screen comic book adaptation since Superman in 1978.

The event: The world premiere and party of Spider-Man in Los Angeles. On its 40th anniversary, the Marvel comic gets a makeover and leaps to the big screen as Tobey Maguire reinvents the superhero and leads the way for sequel-dom.

Blockbuster actress Angelina Jolie, taking a break from shooting her latest film to visit a camp on the Thai-Myanmar border, said her heart was more with these refugees than the Hollywood industry.

This is the time of year when new graduates, ready to make their way in the world, are greeted by gifts of books.

In the 1940s Louisiana's young Vivi Walker (Ashley Judd) was a high-spirited beauty who valued love, loyalty and her three best friends who called themselves the Ya-Yas.

Billy Bob Thornton became an overnight celebrity in 1996 when he wrote and starred in the movie Sling Blade. He was nominated for two Oscars and won for best adapted screenplay.

Brooches have long been stuck with that old lady quality, says L.A. stylist David Whitacre.

The event: The 55th annual Cannes Film Festival in France; May 15-26. Photographers from around the world gather here each year to snap the stars' every move during the 12-day fest. And whether lunching alfresco at the Majestic Beach Club, mixing for cocktails at the Hotel du Cap or gliding down the red carpet at the Grand Théâtre Lumière, the stars turn it on -- in style.

Speaking with the president of a record company last month, I was finally able to ask someone in his position an important (well, relatively important) question for our time: What's up with CD prices? Why does one new album cost $15 or $16, while another is 5 bucks less?

Looking to find the neck's best thing? Check out the funky pendants on beaded chains decorating the décolletage of such trendsetters as Sandra Bullock, Tea Leoni and Cindy Crawford.

More than three decades down the road from its humble beginnings in an apartment near the DePaul University campus in the Windy City, Chicago is poised to help the United States honor its national heroes, start another summer tour, and reissue its massive archive of music.

It wasn't easy, Andrew Solomon says, writing his National Book Award-winning work, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression.

Roses are red and lips are too as stars like Sharon Stone and Christina Applegate go for the glam of vermilion lipstick.

The new Austin Powers film won't hit screens until July, but shades of the groovy spy's signature style are already evident in the wild striped pants showing up on hipsters like Kirsten Dunst and Melissa Joan Hart.

The event: A-listers invaded downtown Manhattan for the Tribeca Film Festival and the U.S. premiere of About a Boy, a comedy starring Brit charmer Hugh Grant.

With her Barbarella bouffant and sexy, skin-tight togs White She Devil (Denise Richards's character) knows how to take care of business. So when she's deployed by a sinister underground movement to dupe seventies-swingin' operative Undercover Brother (Eddie Griffin) -- out to save the world from destruction -- she uses some smooth moves of her own.

Singer Diana Ross has entered a Southern California drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, weeks before she is to launch a world tour.

Kirsten Dunst just turned 20 on Tuesday, but she has already established a name for herself.

This is my mother's favorite movie, says starlet Barbara Crampton on one of the commentary tracks here.

It's hip to be square these days as stars like Allison Janney, Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean and Megan Mullally take a bold point of view in thick-rimmed glasses.

Workout clothes can be extremely unattractive and, yes, unflattering -- so hit the gym in some retro gear that will have heads turning.

So, is he or isn't he?

In 2000, Eminem's ''The Marshall Mathers LP'' attracted unprecedented attention both for its limber, creative lyrics and its violent, homophobic, misogynist messages. Two years later, after some of the most virulent condemnation -- and biggest sales figures -- in history, Mathers returns to the mic with ''The Eminem Show.'' But when the album drops on June 4, will the real Slim Shady stand up?

With Mortal Prey, bestselling author John Sandford -- the nom de plume for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp -- tries to disprove the notion of 13 being an unlucky number. Mortal Prey (Putnam) is the 13th installment of a wildly successful series of thrillers featuring Lucas Davenport, the long arm of the law in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The age of the media's abject worship of all things Kennedy has finally, thankfully, come to a close. The proof, ironically, is Richard Blow's controversial new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr.

Boho meets the beach is a chic option for summer.

Put a modern twist on traditional Mother's Day flowers by sending Mom a bouquet of white flowers, the hot trend in spring floral arrangements.

With its high-flying action, fantastical creatures and galactic gadgets, the latest Star Wars installment may be many things -- but a chick flick?

Jimmy Jam is having a big year. The producer, born James Harris, and partner Terry Lewis are celebrating a milestone in 2002 -- 20 years in the music industry as owners of Flyte Tyme Productions.

Trendy Londoner Will (Hugh Grant) never met a pretty face he didn't want to date, then dump ... until Rachel (Rachel Weisz), a smart, single mom. So smitten with Rachel, this self-absorbed slacker is willing to give up a lifestyle of no-strings flings for a serious romance. She sweeps him off his feet without even trying to, says makeup artist Katya Thomas.

Malcolm D. Lee's Undercover Brother is a spy movie-blaxploitation picture spoof that repeats itself so often, and hits its targets so erratically, you'd swear it was adapted from a Saturday Night Live skit.

It's finally here: Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones. It was worth the wait, and yes, that's because it's a whole lot better than Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace.

Now that they've had a couple of years to process its indignities, most people accept that Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace stunk like a rotting Bantha carcass. So it's nice to report that Episode II: Attack of the Clones is a considerable improvement, even though it features several laughable courtship scenes and lots of wooden expository dialogue. Until he pulls an entertaining, high...

The new film Enough lives up to its title within minutes of the opening credits. At best, this should have been a bad made-for-TV movie. You'll find yourself begging for a commercial break time and again.

The trick of successfully crafting science fiction is to balance the science with the fiction. The best examples of the genre capture the reader's attention with an interesting or exciting speculation about the future, and hold that attention with a well-told story.

In the superb psychological thriller Insomnia, Al Pacino's face is battered by weariness accrued from the psychic compromises of every cop he has ever portrayed in a famous career of pretend law enforcement. He looks crumpled, unretouched -- and you can't take your eyes off him.

Enough with the gee-whiz spider webs and humming light sabers -- Christopher Nolan's Insomnia is the best movie of the summer, a drum-tight psychological thriller that features a trio of acutely focused actors.

Wait a minute -- didn't ''Memento,'' the backward-arcing tale of a man with no short-term memory, already come out on DVD last September with its own list of trumpeted ''Special Features''?

Despite a ridiculous premise, The New Guy is a teen comedy that is actually funny. This is due in large part to director Ed Decter, who co-wrote, along with John J. Strauss, the hit There's Something About Mary (1998).

Ninety-five percent of the movies that come out of Hollywood are crap. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous at best, dishonest at worst; to believe otherwise is delusional.

Spider-Man sucks you right in the moment that Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), a sweetly bashful high school science dork, wakes up after being bitten by a genetically engineered spider and begins to discover his newfound powers.

Do yourself a favor: Don't try to put The Sum of All Fears into any kind of timeline with the other Tom Clancy books-turned-movies featuring Jack Ryan.

This perfectly timed parody retells the origin of Spider-Man, just like the movie -- except that here, Spidey fights supervillains while thinking such heretical thoughts as ''Didn't I 'defeat' this lunatic last week? What a revolving door our justice system has become!''