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...hierarchy was anything but. Though blessed with good luck and good looks, Newman also relied on a rigorous work ethic and a determination to overcome savage criticism. In a typically revealing aside, Levy, a film critic for the Oregonian, recalls a slap the young actor suffered early in his career. In January 1953, after being promoted from understudy to the lead role in the hit Broadway play Picnic, Newman's director told the blue-eyed actor, "You don't carry any sexual threat at all." It was an insult that Newman said he spent 20 years "chewing on." (See TIME...
...pictures from Paul Newman's storied career...
...been written about Barack Obama's learning curve in his first 100 days in office - understandably, given his rapid ascent. But if Obama is a rookie acting like a veteran, Pelosi, a career politician, has all too often filled the role of the bumbler in 2009. In her initial press conference on what the CIA told her, she fumbled through her notes, departed the podium, returned to the podium, departed again and accused the CIA of lying to her - a charge she had clarified the next day by blaming the Bush Administration. To call it a disastrous public performance would...
...guess it's time for you to hate me again," says Eminem hopefully on Relapse, his first new studio album since November 2004. Not so fast, buddy. Measured in the dog years that make up a rap star's career, an epoch has passed since most people have thought about Eminem, let alone been riled up by him, and the world hardly paused in his absence. Dozens of events, from the political (a black President makes the novelty of a white rapper seem kind of insignificant) to the personal (Eminem's struggle with a sleeping-pill addiction rendered him worthy...
...Sacramento problem he had promised to fix. The most recent survey by the Public Policy Institute of California found Schwarzenegger's approval rating among likely voters under 35%, while the state legislature is seen in a favorable light by only one in five voters. (See pictures of the career of California's First Lady Maria Shriver...