Word: dudeness
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...Suddenly the actor (A Soldier's Story) was his own producer, director and coauthor. The film might be his own life too. Bobby Taylor (Townsend) works days at a hot-dog stand while enduring auditions with casting directors who want every black actor to be Eddie Murphy or Super Dude or "just a little more . . . black?" He secures the title role in a blaxploitation epic called Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge, only to chuck it all for a little self-R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Bobby ends up happyish, doing public-service TV spots. Robert, though, earned a happier...
Only by Friday did some palpable help arrive, in the form of thousands of National Guard troops and lumbering convoys of supplies. Virtually alone, Lieut. General Russel Honore, commanding Joint Task Force Katrina, whom Mayor Nagin referred to as the John Wayne dude, seemed to be moving pieces into place. He was out in the streets with his troops, directing convoys and telling anxious Guardsmen to keep their weapons pointed down. He "came off the doggone chopper," Nagin said, "and he started cussing, and people started moving. And he's getting some stuff done. They ought to give that...
Upon arriving at Harvard, Lithgow’s college roommate David B. Ansen ’76 was a bit surprised to see the “tall, gangly dude from Ohio” standing in the middle of their Wigglesworth dorm. A shared interest in theater fueled their instant friendship...
...Daniels and Run D.M.C. He majored in psychology at the University of Texas, speaks six languages (including Russian and Mandarin), is a few hours short of a master's degree in economics and spent nine years as a human-resources consultant. "I think of myself as a pretty unique dude," says Coleman. "But if you've been to a country bar recently and seen people dance to a George Strait song followed by a Ludacris song, you know I'm hardly the only person that likes rap and country mixed together...
...24—Haley is mistakenly bat-whipped by Meredith’s stalker. This dude was stalking Meredith so he could hit her in the head with a bat? He didn’t even take her wallet...