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...right but his strumming was all wrong, it took weeks to relearn how to play. There was also the matter of singing. Phoenix has a warbling, slightly nasal voice that needed extensive training to hit Cash's rumbling lows. "He was pretty horrible when he started," says Dan John Miller, leader of the indie band Blanche, who plays Cash's lead guitarist, Luther Perkins. Phoenix spent months rehearsing by himself, even writing his own songs to "see what it felt like to make something from nothing." When he arrived in Memphis three weeks before shooting began, he brought only...
...first stopping point for budget, tax and Medicare legislation, went to the White House to meet one-on-one with the President. Washington veterans were reminded of the days when Ronald Reagan would sometimes bypass Speaker Tip O'Neill to horse-trade directly with Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski. "A lot of the membership would no longer make the argument that Newt is indispensable," says an aide to a House Republican leader. Still there is no obvious replacement for the man who is the most creative and energetic leader his party has produced in a generation, and whose vision...
...their common desire not to allow the investigations of either Gingrich or the White House to bring the substantive work of the next Congress to a halt. The big question is whether either man can control his own partisans in the House, like Democratic whip David Bonior or Republican Dan Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, which will look into just about everything labeled Bill and Hillary. If Democrats insist on a full-bore pursuit of Gingrich, Republicans will seek the blood of the Clintons later this year or next. Washington is not so different from...
...they are also likely to promote bigger proposals, like health-insurance protection for the first six months of unemployment, educational reforms to benefit the disabled, and Superfund toxic-waste cleanup. One congressional group, the Renewal Alliance, which includes such Republicans as House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and Senators Dan Coats and John Ashcroft, will meet for the first time this week to push a menu of compassion-loaded programs, including flextime, charity tax credits and enterprise zones. Says Kasich: "How kids get educated, how families are doing, how our environment is doing, medical care. Those are the issues...
...Jets, came a new general manager, Ron Wolf. He hired Holmgren, the crackerjack offensive coordinator for the 49ers who can go both ways - tough and tender. That same year Wolf traded a first-round draft choice to the Atlanta Falcons for backup quarterback Brett Favre, who soon replaced incumbent Dan Majkowski. Favre has since replaced Bart Starr in the hearts of many Packer fans as he has driven the team first to respectability, then possibility and now probability. Patrons at Shenanigans, the bar owned by legendary Packer guard Fuzzy Thurston, get misty-eyed talking about the play Favre made...