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What does it take for Imus to see a group of distinguished college athletes as something other than "hos"? When two blond teenagers were accused of robbing a bank in suburban Atlanta on Feb. 27, the delighted national media dubbed them the "Barbie Bandits." Read that as "cute and white." But when the Scarlet Knights pushed their Cinderella season all the way to the championship game, Imus trashed them...
...even broke the cardinal rule of teen soaps; he hijacked school-locker-heartthrob status from the troubled, handsome blond lead character on Fox's The O.C. I couldn't figure out how, until I met Brody. He's not really a nerd. He's tall. He's good-looking. He surfs. He's a drummer in a band. He's got passable scruff. He's from San Diego. He dropped out after a year of community college to move to Los Angeles to try acting for the first time in his life because, you know, he really liked movies...
...jokes the show was loved for but that came to serve as cover for absurd story lines or clichéd characters. Although he's glad it ended, he still considers The O.C. his college, and had lunch the day before with co-star Benjamin McKenzie (who played the aforementioned blond lead). Even the breakup of his much chronicled, sickeningly cute romance with co-star Rachel Bilson (they share custody of two dogs: Penny Lane and Thurmen Murmen) was a good experience. "I wouldn't date someone who would turn into a psycho," he says. Again, there's the lovable naivet?...
Nobody came on to the movie camera - wrapped it in a bear hug and wrestled it to submission - like Betty Hutton. They called this 40s singer-actress "the Blitzkrieg blond" for an energy that would make Rachael Ray seem logy by comparison. Film critic James Agee, and other scribes at TIME, described her variously as "rubber-jointed," "brass-lunged," "super-dynamic," "bouncing, bawling," "raucous, rampageous." To Bob Hope she was "a vitamin pill with legs." She seemed to have swallowed a truckload full of them before every performance; she was indomitable, unstoppable, the Fuller Brush flack with a quick smile...
...find a Hutton equivalent among her contemporaries, let alone now. Danny Kaye poured comic pizzazz into his tongue-twisting tunes, but had a hard time with ballads. Martha Raye did a lot of broad comedy, but without Betty's fresh-scrubbed glamour. Doris Day was another band-singer blond gone Hollywood, but with a more conventional softness. Only Betty had the whole package. She was vivacious, pretty, a Nobel-dynamite-winning thrush, an appealing actress who excelled in comedy and, if a director could just tamp down her pile-driving instincts, drama. TIME, searching for the portmanteau mot juste...