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...unclear exactly when it happened, but sometime in the past decade it became acceptable for country music--loving tough guys to shed the occasional manly tear. Now Nashville's big guns want buckets. For those who gulped their way through George Strait's Desperately and sat stoically by as Alan Jackson asked Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning), McGraw has composed the toughest test to date: call it Tuesdays with Morrie, the ballad. McGraw wrote this elegy following the death of his father, charismatic ex-Big League pitcher Tug McGraw, from cancer in January. Lyrically, it's shameless...
...supporting cast is still a bit too imposing for the material. If you could assemble some of Britain's most noted actors--Thewlis, Oldman, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Julie Christie, Emma Thompson, Fiona Shaw, Richard Griffiths, Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters--well, it probably wouldn't be for a kid-movie franchise. But these master thespians aren't slumming; they're vacationing. They all throw themselves into the serious fun of a grand game...
...Controls the Economy? In "Where Presidents Have No Power" [May 10], Charles Krauthammer argued that regardless of one's opinion of the state of the U.S. economy, the President really has no control over it. But Alan Greenspan says (and many economists agree) that America's huge budget deficits will leave the economy wobbling. Those deficits are largely the result of Bush's policies-tax cuts, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and so forth. If these actions leave the economy in a weakened state, I have to conclude that the President does, in fact, have significant control over the economy...
...wonder the modern world can find a place for Alan Bennett. In an age of braying, he whispers. In a pop culture consecrated to Don Juan, he seems the grayish professor - a wan don. His plays, for stage and TV, are subtle comedies about daft people (The Madness of George III, The Lady in the Van) or lost ones (An Englishman Abroad, Talking Heads). His method is understatement, indirection, irony. "In England, we never entirely mean what we say, do we?" a Bennett character declares in the 1977 play The Old Country. "Do I mean that? Not entirely...
...didn't kiss up. He didn't smile much. And he certainly wasn't much of a looker. Despite lacking these standard keys to success in the world of entertainment, ALAN KING, who died from lung cancer last week at age 76, appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show 56 times, acted in more than 20 movies and was paid handsomely to speak during at least one corporate event you might have attended. King, whose most famous stand-up comedy routines critiqued suburban life, succeeded because he was brutally honest, hardworking and loyal. His greatest attachment was to the Friars Club...