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...indeed, one among us managed a pretty fair imitation. That would be, of all unlikely people, Woody Allen, ever voluble in his admiration for Hope. "It's just shameless how I steal from him," he said recently. "I don't mean the contents of his jokes--but I do him, I lean on him." He means Hope's comic character--especially, in Allen's early films, his sexual ineptitude and the endless spray of one-liners. What Hope uniquely had was brashness, the ability to tweak the mighty (and their supporting ninnies) and skip away unscathed...
...bottom of the pop charts - will be relieved to discover that the essence of Hefner is still there: the realization that the stupid experiences we all have can be the building blocks of art. Hayman's is the music of false starts and dead ends; like Woody Allen and Philip Roth, he turns unvarnished neurosis into art. The French sounds much as Hefner did on their last album, Dead Media: sparse organ arrangements that almost qualify as melodies, with occasional blips and bleeps added. Hayman says he had to create a new band to accommodate his increasing push toward electronica...
...array of Republicans are lining up to get on the ballot (the top vote getter will replace Davis if he loses), the key for Davis is to keep members of his party on the sidelines. "If a solid Democrat files, it would be a vote of no confidence," says Allen Hoffenblum, a G.O.P. consultant, "and then it ceases being a recall election and becomes a gubernatorial election." Davis has constantly been on the phone with top Democrats like House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and Senator Dianne Feinstein. His hope is that in the two weeks before the Aug. 9 deadline...
With handsome features and a name that sounds like a Pokemon toy, Bryant has the rep of a star a prim mother or an innocent kid could love. "For teenage girls especially," says Peter Zollo of the polling firm Teen Research Unlimited, "Kobe is way up there. Where Allen Iverson's been the bad boy, Kobe has been the pretty...
...resume as well as any other star in Hollywood. Look at the arc of his career. It's as perfect as the part in Peter Parker's hair. At 28, he has worked for a string of A-list directors that would make James Lipton weep, including Woody Allen, Ang Lee, Terry Gilliam and Curtis Hanson. How does he do it? Where's his Weekend at Bernie's? "I wait," says Maguire. "I don't want to work as an actor just because I haven't worked in six months. I want to only do things when I really want...