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There is, finally, a Zen paradox to hosting. You must be a celebrity and a commoner; you must be present and absent, ceding your guests the spotlight; you must know what to say and, more important, what not to. Several hosts and producers interviewed for this article repeated the importance of "getting out of the way" of the show. Seacrest says that his job is to make Idol "clever," but adds, "That doesn't mean I say something clever. I know when Simon is gearing up to say something. I can read it on his face. A host...
...flight from Baltimore to Manchester, N.H., to take off last week when he got a stunning BlackBerry message from his lawyer, Robert Luskin: "Fitzgerald Called. Case Over." Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel investigating the leak of former CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity, had sent a fax saying that absent any unexpected developments, he did not anticipate any criminal charges against Rove. The message to Luskin from Fitzgerald--who said nothing publicly--was an unrequired, if welcome, courtesy. Rove had been in suspense since at least February 2004, when he made the first of five grand jury appearances. Luskin said...
...When Humbert Humbert sadly apostrophized his absent inamorata by crying, "Oh my Lolita, I have only words to play with!", he was selling words short. Vladimir Nabokov, the verboleptic who dreamed up Humbert, surely knew this, as do his readers: Lolita is the wordplay lover's favorite novel. Numbers have their power; they can be squared, cubed, extended to infinity. But they can't match the universe of ideas and feelings that come into being when letters collide. Words create worlds...
...truly great farce, is innocently precipitated by the always helpful Rafi. He's given a kitchen task - decanting and defrosting a huge block of frozen soup. Somehow it slips out of his hands and sails out a window, where it lands on a passerby who may be the absent father and may be dead as a result of the accident. Neither his identity nor his fate can at first be fully determined, for by the time the ambulance arrives, the victim has disappeared. In any case, the family is less concerned with his possible demise than it is with...
...Luskin had just received a fax from Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel in the case, saying that he was formally notifying Luskin that absent any unexpected developments, he does not anticipate seeking any criminal charges against Rove...