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McCarthy: Are you [Douthat and DeAraujo] suggesting then that if you are at the vanguard of your craft, you are a public intellectual with a wide audience and that because of that you should toe the line and stay mainstream and say exactly what Middle America would want to hear? You know, I said at the beginning of the year at a rally that we should think before we bomb and that got me put as number 32 on Lynne Cheney’s list of subversive academics. The fact of the matter is that there are lots of people...
President Bush could lose the 2004 election by 3 million votes if his percentage of black and Latino supporters remains the same, said Matthew Dowd, a Republican Party pollster who helped craft the Bush campaign’s minority outreach effort...
Mark Durkan is smart and funny in private and at 41, the youngest leader of a major political party in Western Europe. He's the joint chief of Northern Ireland's government and helped craft much of the subtle, resilient language in the 1998 Good Friday agreement which has kept that government afloat through many storms. So why, when a group of veteran Belfast politicians held forth at the World Economic Forum in New York last week, didn't he leave the graybeards in the dust? He was perfectly competent, sometimes eloquent. But he didn't light up the room...
Producers Are Nuts. They used to dictate exhaustive memos; now they pace their feng shui'd offices barking into their headsets. Producers try to explain this odd craft or dodge in the hour-long Hello, He Lied (recently on AMC), a show whose frenetic pace mimics the job description: run fast and get nowhere. And never humiliate anyone so horribly that you can't get a favor from him tomorrow. Producer Lynda Obst, on whose book the series is based, is the host of this hectic how-to--as in "How to Make a Rotten Movie That Grosses...
...being. And typical of this actor, not one crying out for sympathy. We may come to care for Leon Zat, but slowly, almost grudgingly. We may come to care for LaPaglia, too, a 42-year-old Aussie now residing in the U.S., but on a similar basis--respecting his craft without necessarily adoring the craftsman...