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...just as calculating about his career choices. "He was offered a stupendous amount of money to continue to do Roseanne," the sitcom he was on for 11 episodes, says his dad Nick Clooney. "I was thinking he could build a little nest egg and maybe acting would pay off after all. He said, 'No, I'll be in a cul-de-sac. I'll be that guy, and that's all I'll be.'" He pitched sitcom pilots and dramas and eventually won an Oscar nomination for co-writing the original screenplay for Good Night, and Good Luck. He makes...
...Jeane Kirkpatrick had been the guest of honor at a dinner hosted by Argentine Ambassador Takacs, an extraordinary accident of timing by the Argentines, if it was an accident. With Kirkpatrick at the function was Deputy Secretary of State Walter J. Stoessel, the highest-ranking U.S. career diplomat. Trying to explain the embarrassment, the State Department said only that the affair had been scheduled long before the invasion. British Ambassador Henderson noted the attendance of Kirkpatrick and Stoessel at the dinner and declared sarcastically: "We are not thrilled...
...game.” Weekend games at the Bright Center versus favored Princeton and Quinnipiac did little to slow down Taylor and the Crimson as the team notched two victories. Last Friday against Princeton, Taylor played a critical role in setting up sophomore forward Doug Rogers’ first career hat trick. In the third period, his cross from the left wing to the waiting stick of Rogers, positioned at the weak side post, helped secure the win. Taylor recorded another assist in the win against Quinnipiac on Saturday. “As the season goes on, you just start...
...Tyler set a career high in both points and rebounds, but his 10 boards were probably what hurt the Crimson the most. On his rare misses, he was able to get the offensive board when it counted, making it difficult for Harvard to sustain a substantial lead even with consistent offense in the second...
...this award for a long time,” he said. “I’m amazed and thrilled.” Before taking the stage, Walken was subjected to a “roast,” in which Teslik and Lachter poked fun at his career, singling out his roles in flops like “Gigli” and “Balls of Fury.” They noted his 1978 Academy Award for “The Deer Hunter,” then joked that, “like most of his major...