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Beneath the sturdy British accent with which he articulated the distinct "Morgan philosophy," Mendoza slipped quips mocking the firm's "gripping" recruiting presentation and one of his own past trysts...
...Mariah as Melissa Etheridge. Worse, many songs on Butterfly offer minimal accent on the same lamentable themes of self-objectification ("I wanna be your babydoll"), self-abdication ("You can have me when you want me") and self-sacrifice ("I'd risk my life to feel/Your body next to mine"). Few women in music mention themselves so frequently only to marginalize themselves so cruelly. Indeed, Butterfly starts to sound whiny at best, and a lot like masochistic masturbation at its worst. Stand up for yourself, Mariah. And put some clothes...
...East Orangers who know her have walled her away from the press with a touching ferocity. "Why has she been forgotten for so long?" says Helmut Schroeder, the former manager of an apartment building where she once lived. He speaks in a thick German accent and refuses to take anyone to see her. "She is very frail," he says. "She is not the kind of person who complains. But I worry for her." She has given his sons an old tennis racket and an old golf club (yes, Tiger Woods, she was a pioneering black pro golfer...
...Executive who throws caution to the winds and surprises his staff members by being more candid than they are, Travolta isn't the least bit cagey about his role's model. The actor has copied the President's hair color, body language and a remarkably accurate honey-dipped Arkansas accent. "I'm really playing him," admits the actor, who studied hours of videotapes to prep for his latest face/off. "It's false p.r. for me to do it any other way...unless there are some legal issues I don't know about...
Actors are drawn to certain kinds of roles. Meryl Streep likes a part with an accent. Tom Cruise likes a role that calls for him to flash his grin. And as his new movie, Conspiracy Theory, once again confirms, Mel Gibson likes a movie in which he's tortured...