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...with that, the President lighted a cigar...
...Although he delivers Bond-mots with requisite panache, Brosnan plays the part straighter and steelier than Moore did, and he's plainly more comfortable in 007's skin than Dalton was. On the beachside set in Cadiz, he slips into and out of the role, puffing a Cuban cigar all the while. Playing Bond "is bloody hard work," he says during a break from filming. "Trying to hit that note correctly--with just the right amount of tongue-in-cheek, yet also trying to play him with a certain reality--can be tricky...
...City to guarantee victory. "You're the man!" Rove bellowed back into his cell phone. Then he gave the President the news: Talent's win meant they didn't just have the state; they had the Senate. They had it all. And with that, George W. Bush lit a cigar. Presidents aren't supposed to bet their prestige on midterm elections, which their party traditionally loses. Rove had peddled the riskiest midterm strategy ever to emerge from a White House, designed to realize the grand, gauzy vision he has been touting for the past three years - that he and Bush...
...Establishment comedian represented by Alan King; the other is the younger, edgier, anti-Establishment comic represented by George Carlin. What they have in common is simple: "They're funny." For Seinfeld, that's the gold standard. A young Alan King appears onscreen in a tuxedo, holding an unlit cigar. Seinfeld looks on reverently. "The cigar confers authority, wisdom, arrogance," says Seinfeld, "all key elements of being a comedian...
Ultimately, Seinfeld is a traditionalist. For him, there's no shame in being Alan King in a tuxedo holding an unlit cigar and the audience's attention. "In fact, it's a high calling," he says. "An honor." Still, wouldn't you be reaching more people and having more of an effect if you were on TV? "Reaching more people, yes. Having more of an effect, no." But what makes you get on that plane every week? Is it the applause? He answers slowly. "Not really. The laugh is the vote...