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Sports commentator Frank Deford is pleased to see that the sport of roller derby is alive and well for women all over the world. The number keeps growing, but there are now well over 500 women's leagues in 16 countries, spanning North America and Europe as well as Australia and Brazil.

The Changing Demographics of Comic-Con

For generations of Americans, the United Service Organizations was Bob Hope and sexy singers visiting U.S. military installations all over the world. While the organization is still involved with prov

What do a CIA agent, an inappropriate electronics store manager, and an alien annihilator have in common? They're all female film characters — played, respectively, by Angelina Jolie, Jane Lynch and Sigourney Weaver — originally written for men to play.

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The opening credits tell us that corporations have essentially taken the place of countries and decisions that have global impact are often made by a single man - a hired gun. Cusack plays Brand Hauser, a mercenary traveling to Turaqistan (a not so subtle name meant to conjure up American trouble spots in Turkey, Iraq and Afghanistan) to help make one of these "decisions." He has been hired to kill a Middle East official that's giving the U.S. a pain in their assets. Turaqiatan, you see, is a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President (played by Dan Aykroyd). Hauser's cover for this mission is as a trade show producer overseeing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (an almost unrecognizable Hilary Duff), a wildly popular and slutty Mid East pop star who sings about bombings and about how you "blow me... away." Complicating matters is a nosy but sexy reporter (Marisa Tomei) who tries to make Hauser see the error of his ways.

Read an exclusive excerpt of David Rakoff's last novel, Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish, a set of humane, witty interlocking vignettes in verse that illustrate the scope of the 20th century, from 1920s Chicago meatpackers to dissatisfied 1980s yuppies.

The Wackness

The Old Globe's annual Shakespeare Festival begins this week. This year's line-up includes "Hamlet", the most dissected of Shakespeare plays and "Measure for Measure", often considered the Bard's sexi