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...subject. I hate to ask questions I know the answers to. And I've never been afraid to ask what might be a dumb question." This deceptively simple formula is the basis of King's great achievement as an interviewer: he approaches his job as an informed layman, intensely curious about virtually anyone who appears across his desk. He is obviously well read, a passionate sports buff and a sophisticated student of politics. Yet to an amazing degree he manages to set aside ego and loosen up guests with empathetic, probing but never baiting questions. "What I do best...
...World in 1984, a serious comedy in which one of the characters says, "So I sometimes think, now it's all over and we're up there in the big debriefing space in the sky, and the good Lord decides to hold a symposium 'cause he's curious: How did this thing happen? And everybody says, 'Hey, don't look at me, I didn't wanna do it!' The end result being that everyone realizes no one wanted to do it!' " Other signs of the times are noisier. Video games enable players to nuke planets and stars. A rock group...
...racial segregation but for the creation of a group of separate tribal "homelands," in which all of the country's blacks would eventually have theoretical citizenship, even though most would continue to live where they always had, in the black townships of white-ruled South Africa. By this curious bit of legerdemain, the Afrikaners hoped to keep in check the potential political power of blacks, who now number 23.9 million, compared with the whites' 4.9 million, the 2.9 million coloreds, and the nearly 1 million people of Indian descent...
...better than the best works by Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, Mary Robison or Frederick's older brother Donald. They are among the most prominent writers who have experimented in various ways with the notion that in storytelling, less is both more and positively too much. But those who are curious about what the minimalists are up or down to can learn a lot by starting right here...
Many will be curious to see how Ferrell fares in high-brow comedy. The frenzied quality of Hobie’s self-repression may lend the film an undercurrent of energy, but there is also that nagging feeling that Ferrell is just itching to rip off his clothes and make a penis joke. With little room for off-the-cuff physical comedy and a wishy-washy part, Ferrell languishes...