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...later, The Game (born Jayceon Taylor) finds himself in the unfamiliar position of trying to sell an album that includes no Dre instrumentals or Fiddy hooks and, therefore, is not guaranteed platinum status. The cards are stacked against him, but that’s exactly how this former drug dealer from Compton, Calif. likes...
...G.O.P. Senators said they were eager to have Lott back in the leadership, as he's known as a clever back-room dealer and tactician on the Senate floor, which operates through a bizarre, complicated rules that at times outgoing Majority Leader Bill Frist didn't seem to understand. "He's the most effective leader I know," said Arizona's John McCain, who has won Lott's support for his likely presidential bid. Minnesota's Norm Coleman called Lott "the master of the Senate...
...World War II and recently returned to the owner's heirs--fetched a combined $104 million. An anonymous moneybags phoned in a $40.3 million winning bid for Paul Gauguin's Man with an Ax--a record for that artist. "We were flabbergasted by the prices," says New York art dealer Dominique Levy. "The bidding was coming from everywhere. It was an electric evening...
More often, his subjects play along with startling nonchalance. When Borat asks which type of car he should buy to attract a girl with “a shave down below,” the dealer barely skips a beat before responding, “what you want is a Corvette.” This straight-talking instinct makes for good comedy, exposing the American id in all its potential hilarity, and brutality...
Preminger, no less a wheeler-dealer than he was a producer-director, persuaded the powers-that-were to let him shoot in the Senate, which no Hollywood film had done before. That was generous of them, and foolish, since the film (and the Allen Drury novel on which it was based) portrays Washington as almost systemically corrupt. The scandal at the heart of the plot: the news that one Senator had a homosexual relationship. Really, now, who would believe that...