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Nice has company too. Another new book preaching kindness is The Girl's Guide to Being a Boss (Without Being a Bitch) (Morgan Road), by marketing professionals Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio. As the title trumpets, the B-word is the dreaded description to have hurled at you in anger. In an amusing chick-lit, women's magazine patter (the boss is the "chick-in-charge"), the authors counsel being your authentic, feminine self. "Were our mothers and grandmothers fighting for us to go to college and get jobs we enjoy so we could be forced into sensible shoes...
...Debra Condren, a psychologist and business coach, is one. "Sometimes women are too nice and let other people in the workplace steal their credit. They don't know how to stick up [for themselves]." In her new book, Am?BITCH?ous (Morgan Road), out in December, she views the bitch label as a component of admirable ambition. Her definition of ambitchous: a woman who "makes more money, has more power, gets the recognition she deserves, and has the determination to go after her dreams with ... integrity...
JACK NICHOLSON: [To Damon] Well, you finally get to play a mean ol' son of a bitch! Welcome to the club...
...football, Champ Car racing. The PBR paid the network for airtime, guaranteeing that nbc wouldn't lose money if no one tuned in. As it turned out, audiences liked watching corn-fed young dudes cling to enraged animals for dear life. "People want to see a big bad som'bitch hoof the s___ out of somebody," says Jerry Nelson, a top bull owner. "They want to see a little blood and guts." They're usually not disappointed: 1 in 15 rides results in an injury to the rider. In 2000, one rider died in the ring...
...Cagney embodied the sass and snarl of newly urbanized America, Bette Davis represented the assertive, neurotic ur-bitch. She came to Warners in 1931, making five to seven films a year and, like Cagney, campaigning for better parts. (She made her first big impression, in Of Human Bondage, on a loan-out to RKO.) When she turned down one role she was suspended and left for England, hoping to make pictures there, but Warners sued her for breach of contract...