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...scene: A dinner party in a Bangkok penthouse, silverware clinking on fine China, various foams and reductions tickling cultured palates. An out-of-town guest turns to a Thai man and asks about the red-shirted protesters calling for the government's downfall. "Who supports the red shirts?" asks the foreigner, trying to understand the years-long standoff between the red shirts and the pro-government yellow shirts. "No one," replies the Thai, dismissively, sniffing a fine Bordeaux. Then, as an afterthought, he adds, "Well, except for the poor...
BILL CLINTON, on filling in for President Obama, who was unable to make the annual Gridiron Dinner because of the impending vote on his health care bill...
...took the iPad to dinner with journalist friends that first evening. Everyone expressed interest, but we kept the machine to the side while we gossiped about other things. We did call upon it to answer trivia: What kind of movie career did Farrah Fawcett have? Was it insignificant enough to justify her exclusion from the Oscars' annual montage of farewells last month? (Answer: She made Cannonball Run but was quite good in The Apostle. Otherwise, she was a TV star.) It was easier to look the information up on the iPad rather than switch on a computer or fumble through...
...said that a movie actor should have the musk of danger, and a TV actor the scent of security. The first is a hot date, the second the ideal dinner guest. That makes Forsythe the template of TV stardom. Unthreateningly handsome, never breaking a sweat, or causing one, he was rarely the most noticeable person in a movie or TV series. The young Ann-Margret vamped and held him hostage in the 1964 Kitten With a Whip - oh, if the movie were only as tawdry as its title - but his character survived, decorum intact. Lawyer Al Pacino spumed and ranted...
...summer orientation, at least one meeting of all current and incoming House Masters, and casual dinner conversations will prepare the three pairs of newly-appointed Masters before they are suddenly thrust into the many responsibilities of overseeing an entire House...