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Levine, a colorless lawyer who has never ingratiated himself within the industry, could be facing the same fate himself. By now, Sony Pictures Entertainment has turned into an executive torture chamber, with an extraordinary string of firings in its recent past as the studio has struggled to extricate itself from a morass of big budgets, bad box office and fratricidal infighting...
...first show, Republican Congressman John Kasich was so bothered by feedback in his earpiece that he had to keep removing it to answer the questions. A week later, host Tony Snow kept referring to Labor Secretary Robert Reich as "Senator." Snow, a conservative newspaper columnist, is a competent but colorless interviewer, and the show is loaded with superfluous gimmicks (questions from viewers sent over the Internet; clips from old Fox Movietone newsreels). Overall, the program--forced to broadcast from various locations around Washington while a permanent studio is being finished--looks rinky-dink...
...played golf with ceos at country clubs from which other blacks were excluded or shucked and jived his way through goofy movies like some modern Stepin Fetchit. Never one to speak out about civil rights, he seemed to shed his racial identity, crossing over into a sort of colorless minor celebrity as easily as he escaped from tacklers--or from the black wife he traded in for a white teenager. By trial time Simpson wasn't exactly white, but he wasn't exactly black either...
...stump speech to the convention that is otherwise colorless--Lugar's idea of an applause line is, "Let me say at the outset that a strong America is imperative"--he jolts his audience midway through. "I am advocating," he declares, "nothing less than the ending of all income tax, the abolishing of the Internal Revenue Service, and the substitution of a national sales tax." (He draws cheers.) Lugar wants to eliminate all personal and corporate income taxes, including estate and inheritance taxes, in favor of a 17% national sales tax on goods and services. To prevent the system from being...
Long said he thought that it was "very unlikely" that the culprits were students or laboratory employees. He said the criminals were probably using the scale, which was not one of the laboratories' more precise "analytical" devices, to weigh and "market on their own" certain illegal colorless chemical powders...