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...call to a friend who works for the Prime Minister's party, but no luck there either. "Nothing," he told Celentano. "But he said he'll make some calls and get back to me in the morning." The performance was vintage Benigni, a longtime leftist and frequent Berlusconi basher. But, above all, the spectacle was an awesome display of Celentano's media might. Since first airing two weeks ago, RockPolitik has smashed all ratings records; some 12.5 million Italians, a 49% audience share, tuned in to see last week's show. Celentano is pulling them in with his rocker roots...
...self described “equal opportunity basher,” Peterson put the situation in clear and serious terms, taking a highly critical tone towards politicians and the government in general...
...working on with him this spring, Michael averred: going the other way. And why might that be, Mikey? I asked silently as I waited for amplification. Might it be that Jason, now (by necessity) off the juice, weighs 140 pounds and the Yanks realize they must turn their erstwhile basher into a Punch-and-Judy hitter-or risk getting nothing at all out of him for all their wasted millions? Michael didn't mention the S word and, to my surprise, neither did Kitty...
...answer, say top Bush aides, is yes. But the fight the President seeks is not the one he will face, and almost certainly win, over Bolton's nomination. Bush chose Bolton, they say, because he's sure that the smart and abrasive onetime protg of U.N. basher and former North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms is just the person to convince U.N. bashers in Congress that it will serve U.S. interests to give the scandal-plagued international body the American support and money it needs. "This guy has the credibility to go to the skeptics...
Cheadle's roles--Buck Swope, a porn star who dreams of becoming a stereo salesman, in Boogie Nights; Montel Gordon, a determined narcotics cop, in Traffic; the scene-stealing murderer, Mouse, in Devil in a Blue Dress; and Cockney explosives expert Basher Tarr in Ocean's Eleven and Twelve--are miniaturist masterpieces, full of detail and life. But as Paul Rusesabagina in the independent film Hotel Rwanda, Cheadle shows he can fill the screen as well as anyone else...