Word: companionism
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Michael has been a superb leader of our colleagues in Washington and a boon companion to his colleagues in New York City. I once said to Michael that I regretted that I had never got a chance to work for him in Washington. He smiled and said nothing, most likely because he knew that on the busiest news weeks out of Washington, I actually did work for him. I just didn't realize...
...different can best friends' love lives be? Shortly after Ben Affleck married his high-profile, pregnant girlfriend Jennifer Garner, MATT DAMON, 34, proposed to his very low-profile, already-a-mom amore. She's Argentine-born LUCIANA BARROSO, 29, onetime Miami bartender and now full-time companion to the jet-setting actor. The pair have been dating for about two years but haven't announced a wedding date, which all the paparazzi think is very inconsiderate...
...support. At which point "the unattractively freckled, somewhat fleshy shoulders" of Elizabeth Costello appear up his stairs. Is she an authorial intervention? A meddling cupid? A cynic about his real intentions with the Jokics, whom she sees as more avaricious than angelic? Or is she the amputee's perfect companion? In Slow Man, she's all of the above, and a wonderful literary conceit to boot. But most of all, she's a refreshingly down-to-earth symbol of that airiest of pursuits - creative writing, which is the real subject of Coetzee's playful novel...
...collaborative, and I wanted to do something solitary. I wrote it in notebooks. I had to speak in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I took it to the hotel there. I wrote it in Hawaii, at a writers' conference last summer, and in London. That novel truly became a wonderful companion over the past two years...
Expectations were that Altman would take Companion's mixture of sentiment and gentle satire and make it moodier and darker. Not so, says Keillor. "I made it darker, by introducing the conceit of the last show." In the movie, the show has been sold to a conglomerate, whose axman (Tommy Lee Jones) arrives at the end of the broadcast to shut it down. No wonder the Angel of Death (Virginia Madsen) is gliding through the theater's wings...