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...those leaders remain pliant providers of oil to America, they are exempted from military reprisal. The president has used the “patriotism card” to keep political opponents running and prevent them from delivering much-needed criticism of the government’s behavior. As Americans buck under intrusive security measures, the leaders of al Qaeda roam free...
...that simply cranks up the kitsch an extra notch: '50s-era nuclear children and busty, bouffant models--often in full evening wear--grin manically from the plush interiors of futuristic, tear-drop-shaped Kozy Coaches and Karriall Kampers, many of which look as if they were designed by Buck Rogers on acid. The authors admire their subject with very little irony, but you should feel free to bring your own. Trailer Travel is a glimpse of a moment in time, unimaginable now, when mobile homes were almost cool...
Mike White's father says one of his son's big cinematic influences is Woody Allen. It makes sense. Like Allen, the screenwriter acts in his movies and usually plays one of the film's creepiest characters. But in White's case, the creepiness is intentional. In Chuck & Buck (2000), he starred as an emotionally stunted man who so badly wants to reconnect with a childhood friend that he stalks him. In this year's teen comedy Orange County, he was an unctuous, semiliterate English teacher. In The Good Girl, he's a born-again security guard with a crooked...
...second grade," says White.) And his discovery about his father led to a lifelong fascination with secrets. "You feel like even really good people are showing a different public face than their private selves," he says. Sexual secrets are the brick and mortar of The Good Girl and Chuck & Buck, and in 2001 White created Fox's Pasadena, a twisted, sly and regrettably short-lived prime-time soap (set in his hometown) about the criminal, financial and bedroom secrets of a newspaper-mogul family...
Mackey is a model CEO when it comes to bang for the buck. Last year he took home a relatively modest $350,000 in wages and bonus and $2.2 million from selling Whole Foods stock. (He owns only 1% of the shares outstanding.) The firm is running so smoothly these days that Mackey has all but disappeared. Since early April he has been hiking the Appalachian Trail; he intends to finish its entire 2,168-mile length by the fall...