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...pizza innovation at the unhealthy rate of eight to 10 pies a day. He helped the Hut launch a "pocket" pizza called Calizza--it followed the towelette into oblivion--and divined what he says is the single most important law of business: success requires you to sit taste bud to taste bud with your customer...
...golden boy" with an absolute commitment to good. Exley is a little uncomfortable with the corner-cutting approach of the police chief Dudley Smith (James Cromwell), who dispenses tips on life with a thin smile that promises something violently wrong is happening somewhere. Smith would seem more satisfied with Bud White (Russell Crowe), a plodding tough guy who thinks slow but does think...
This trio includes Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey, never more engagingly slippery), who is the technical adviser to a Dragnet-like TV show and is becoming a celebrity in his own right; Bud White (Australian actor Russell Crowe), who's a sweet, plodding sort of guy unless someone visits violence on women, which turns him into a raging brute; and Ed Exley (Guy Pearce, another Aussie), the departmental priss and spoilsport, thoroughly despised by everyone, as moral centers of amoral enterprises should be--until they turn out to have been right all along...
...humorous touches, as when Ford creeps past baggage and broken glass from refrigerators filled with enough milk, orange juice and cases of Bud to quench the thirst of all Kazakhstan; and when, after fumbling through the pages of a cellular phone user's pamphlet, he finds himself dealing with a skeptical White House phone operator who responds, "Yeah. And I'm the First Lady." Equally amusing is a parachute scene in which a secretary who provides key assistance to Marshall descends, smiling, into the safety of...central Asia...
...decision in a cloud of exhaustion after working 18 hours straight. Later, Boehner and Army got on their hands and knees, admitting they had entertained "hypotheticals" about a Gingrich replacement. By meeting's end, all three said they were sorry for failing to nip the revolt in the bud the moment they caught wind of it. The apologies were accepted by a magnanimous Gingrich, who said the incident is officially over and that the party should now press ahead together to complete the tax-cut and balanced budget bills. But given the amount of distrust that's certain to linger...