Word: aristocratic
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...acting Oscar: Benicio Del Toro for Best Supporting Actor. Del Toro, who plays a conflicted Mexican cop who trails a case to California, will defeat Willem Dafoe, as a poignantly funny man-bat in Shadow of the Vampire, and Joaquin Phoenix, whose performance as the envious Roman aristocrat in Gladiator will get him bigger roles but not an Oscar, yet. Del Toro has three arguments in his favor. One: he's quite good in the film. Two: he's the hottie du jour, sleepily sensual and muy macho, with a touch of the Method. Three: he's the standard bearer...
...would surely pashaw at Wolfe's own practice of manliness. Wolfe is not Truman Capote, however. He was once an athlete, pitching semi-pro baseball. Despite his age, he shows off his virility in his young children. His manliness is of a particularly southern variety, the flamboyance of an aristocrat, albeit affected in Wolfe's case...
...billion worldwide in ticket sales, to say nothing of CDs and sweatshirts. From his pen have also flowed Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar and Starlight Express. And Evita, with a little help from Madonna, grossed $146 million as a movie after racking up millions as a play. Like many an aristocrat before him, Lord Lloyd Webber (he was made a baron for life in 1997) has decided to add to his impressive digs in London. He and a partner paid slightly more than $150 million for the Stoll Moss group, adding its 10 topflight London theaters to his existing portfolio...
...accusing the Texas governor of "betraying" Americans with his tax plan and proposals to consider raising the retirement age. Then arch-conservative Alan Keyes wrapped his criticism of the Bush tax plan in an out-of-left-field race reference to "Massah Bush." And the picture of an uncaring aristocrat was completed by Senator Orrin Hatch's charge that Dubya's Web site was "not user-friendly." (The Hatch campaign may want to consider rallying the netizenry behind the slogan "No Taxation Without Navigation...
DIED. ALFRED GWYNNE VANDERBILT, 87, horse-racing legend and scion of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; in Mill Neck, N.Y., after returning from his daily visit to the Belmont racetrack. Vanderbilt was the consummate sportsman aristocrat and society high flyer. The owner of the great Thoroughbred Native Dancer, he helped introduce the use of the starting gate and the photo-finish camera...