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...There are a lot of kinds of hate we should be fighting," council secretary John F. Bash '03 said. "We can do a lot more good by combating hate as a whole...
...middle of comedy Thursday--when Al Gore did Rosie and Regis, Bush did Letterman, and both candidates did the roast-like Al Smith dinner--they separately taped halves of a conversation for an introduction to Sunday Nov. 5's Saturday Night Live's Presidential Bash 2000. Both played to their stereotypes not only on camera but off camera as well. After just one insipid sentence--"Hi, I'm Al Gore, Democratic candidate for President"--Gore began micromanaging. "I thought that line was out," he said. Meanwhile, Bush asked SNL writer Jim Downey to include even more malapropisms. After stumbling over...
...Hollywood to be functional, it needs to have a power axis-at any given moment, there has to be an "it boy" or "it girl" to either praise or bash. It's crucial that Tinseltown have a "buzz" person of the month; everyone has to feel like they're responsible for creating and destroying stars. That way, no one can get too big an ego, no one can get too far ahead, no one can turn the power axis into a power black hole. There's only one exception to this general rule. When there's a presidential election, Hollywood...
...then Gore does the unthinkable. He selects a running mate who-gasp-hates Hollywood. Within days, Joe Lieberman starts wailing about "cultural pollution," so Tinseltown momentarily loses its bearings again. After all, they can't bash Bush if Gore's bashing them. What...
Hollywood isn't particularly creative these days, so the thought process went something like this: "Well if we were about to bash Liz Hurley and then we started to bash Bush but now Gore's bashing us, well, then, we should...bash Liz Hurley!" Hurley violated the union strike four months ago and thought she had cleanly gotten away with it, but now all of a sudden she's paying the price. Twenty-four entertainment wire articles on Liz in the last four days (compared to two on Campaign 2000)! At the recent premiere for Bedazzled, she was pelted with...