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...played by last-matinee-idol Clooney, has been screwing Cox's icy-beautiful wife (Tilda Swinton) and recently emerged from 20 years in the Secret Service "without ever discharging my weapon" - which is as sure a clue at the firearm of the wall in the first act of an Ibsen play that Harry's gun will be fired. He has the patter down pat, but something, maybe his fascination with the floors in the houses he visits, tells you that this Clooney smoothie is following the dictum the Coens laid down for all their actors: "to channel your inner knucklehead...
...orientation but chose to abstain from sexual relations. But abstinence does not alter a person's sexual orientation." Tatchell says that the two men's bond, and Newman's abiding wish to have his final resting place next to St. John's, make separating their remains "an act of dishonesty and betrayal by the homophobes in the Vatican...
...money and airtime are just part of Rove's carefully calibrated public second act. It's also about reputation. After a 15-year run as George W. Bush's resident campaign genius, Rove left the White House diminished by accusations he played a role in politicized hiring at the Justice Department. (An internal report on the matter is expected soon.) He was wounded, too, by the revelation that - despite numerous, vigorous denials by the Administration - he indeed leaked the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame. And the 2006 election, whose outcome he got wildly wrong, was seen as a repudiation...
...months of pitched battle and a summer of what-ifs would change anyone; they've turned Clinton into a first-rate stage presence. She followed a tough act, Montana governor Brian Schweitzer, who woke up a drowsy crowd with a barn burner of a speech on - of all things - energy independence. Yet Clinton managed, without a lot of poetry or melodrama, to take the gathered Democrats up another couple of notches toward fever country...
...response to McCain's ads, Clinton listed all the reasons the Democrats needed to get their act together. "The Supreme Court is at stake; our educational system needs the right kind of change. We've got to become energy independent; we have to create millions of new green-collar jobs. We've got so much work to do around the world," Clinton said. "None of that will happen if John McCain is in the White House...