1 POWERBALL You have a better chance of being hit by lightning. And you don't even have to wait in line for that.

2 BASEKETBALL A movie about a sport that combines the best of baseball and basketball. Instead of choking the coach, you hit him with a bat.

3 MAXIMUM BOB The new ABC series about a tough Florida judge. Making the law the only thing in the state with some teeth in it.

4 BOB EVANS The movie producer's marriage to Catherine Oxenberg dissolved after two weeks. Who were the bridesmaids? Shannen Doherty and Robin Givens?

5 EVER AFTER Drew Barrymore plays the princess-to-be in this Cinderella tale. But instead of a glass slipper, it's a Doc Marten.

6 VIAGRA FALLS Pfizer's now working on a drug to keep Viagra sales up.

7 LOLITA A middle-aged man is obsessed with a vivacious 14-year-old girl. It was Ken Starr's first case.

8 MACH 3 Gillette spent a billion dollars developing and marketing a three-bladed razor. It plans to make the money back by buying stock in Band-Aids.

9 DAWSON'S CREEK The Parents' Television Council says it's family unfriendly. It distracts the babysitter.

10 MICE A lab reports it's cloned 50 of them. Thanks, guys -- we could use more mosquitoes and snakes, too.

11 VACATIONS Ah, the simple life: a place with one phone line, an old-fashioned fax, and a rustic old Apple II.

12 MONTANA The locals don't want their state to get a reputation as a breeding ground for sociopaths. But the little voices tell them not to worry about it.

13 JIM MORRISON The Paris cemetery where he resides wants him out. He attracts the wrong sort of people: the living.

14 MICHAEL FLATLEY The Lord of the Dance has hung up his dancing shoes to possibly become a boxer. It was the only other job where he wouldn't have to wear a shirt.

15 RALPH NADER'S ''PINTO-LAND'' The consumer advocate wants to open a museum full of unsafe products. But he's having trouble finding corporate sponsors.


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