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...their letter the 20 Senators said they were not supporting or opposing the proposal to expand NATO, but they advised Clinton that a lot of "contentious" matters would have to be debated when they take up the issue. "I don't think there's organized opposition," says Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican from Texas who circulated the letter, "but I do think there's a growing group of questioners...
Watch him at work in the 1946 It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra's Christmas confection with the bittersweet center. Stewart, as young George Bailey, is stepping up on one of his shaky soapboxes to tell off crippled town bully Lionel Barrymore. It is the first of many righteous harangues George will deliver, and at first he doesn't realize this one will get him in serious trouble, for he is talking himself into a lifetime sentence in Bedford Falls. Stewart seemed to spend most of his career on the threshold of puberty; the anguished ripple of a high...
...real life he gave up his career to join the Army Air Corps, distinguishing himself on bomber runs. But those clear eyes, as blue as the skies patrolled by the Strategic Air Command, saw terrible things. He returned to movies with It's a Wonderful Life, where George Bailey does good deeds in a small town that his ambitions were too big for; he is a hero because, with reluctant grace, he made the noble compromise...
...until Jean Arthur's hardbought worldly wisdom is put at his service. The innocent is not good with words, so fists must serve--as Stewart shows when he tries to taunt the glib C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) into fighting him in The Philadelphia Story. Even saintly George Bailey terrorizes his own children before rushing out to do violence to himself...
...HANKS The George Bailey of the '90s. America's latest Everyman...