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...some Beautiful bashers, these omissions are crucial--as if a biopic of Bill and Hillary Clinton had left out "I didn't inhale," Paula Jones and the cigar. But A Beautiful Mind--like the Iris Murdoch drama Iris, which has also been criticized for rouging the truth, and for which Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent are nominated this year--is biography simplified to a parable in which reason is lost and love sustained. Anyway, that's the movie that Howard made and that will probably be named Best Picture on Sunday. You see, now that it's been pilloried...
...legs. When they approached leather wholesalers with their order, Gold and Williams found that American companies were not prepared for them: they could buy white leather or teal leather, but not basic brown. What's more, the key to the chairs was their age, their power to evoke the cigar-laden atmosphere of a bygone era, so the leather had to look old. After a long search, Gold found a factory in the Netherlands with a process for distressing leather to make it look artificially aged. He bought up its entire year's output, $100,000 worth, and turned...
...been only a few years since the one major news story was the relationship between President Bill Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky. Trysts at the Oval Office, the cigar, the Starr Report and millions of dollars spent on uncovering the most personal details of a presidents’ life were not the most productive uses of our government’s, the media’s or, frankly, our own time...
...post-Cold War isolation, Cuba’s nasty and oppressive regime seems sad and bullied and even a little bit cute—the “Tickle-Me-Elmo” of totalitarian states. And let’s not forget the enduring appeal of its cigar-chomping despot, the “glue that holds Cuba together,” as Coyula-Cowley says, and the only dictator clever enough to get people to call him by his first name. Why, everybody loves “Fidel”—especially the movie stars, left...
...issue of wider public debate, but he acknowledges initial success with that would oblige him to run for the presidency. "Only a President elected on a platform of fundamental reform would have the determination and legitimacy with voters to enact such changes," he says, puffing on his trademark cigar. "If I were to run, it wouldn't be to seek power. Just to hold power...