Word: earshot
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...save the party did so in more ways than one. The plumber recognized Biggs from his TV appearances and immediately commenced quizzing him on the market. "I told him I would be cautious at this point," Biggs says. The plumber begged to differ. To the amusement of all within earshot, "he told me I was as full of it as my septic system." The plumber went on to say he was plumbing part time now because he made more money trading stocks...
...thing they've never seen before: BRUCE WILLIS as a bad guy. In fact, Willis will be seen in lots of new guises, including a fat-suit, blond and ponytail wigs, fake noses and geeky glasses. And not one of his trademark Die Hard "Yippee-ki-yays" in earshot. According to the director, even the actor seemed thrown by his villainous new persona. "It slightly confused him a couple of times," says Michael Caton-Jones, who spent part of last week reshooting the end of the film. "We had to stop and talk it out." Whether the Many Faces...
...turned out despite her fishbowl upbringing, but her Secret Service detail also deserves a nod. CHELSEA is very sensible in cooperating with her agents, and in turn they cut her enough slack so she can manage a normal teenage life, like strolling with a date out of their earshot. The agents have been specially trained to work with her age group, and "It works really well," says a White House insider. So after Mom and Dad finish moving her in, maybe Stanford will turn...
...worth noting that all this creative energy--people re-engineering their careers, towns rebuilding their Main Streets, churches rethinking their missions--occurs well out of earshot of the nation's capital. Rarely does a town council think that Washington will provide any protection from or solution for its problems, a feeling confirmed by the spectacle of politicians bickering over flood relief and subpoena power. Even if they could get federal or state aid, Americans are wary of the baggage that would inevitably come with it. If you can't help us, goes the message to government, at least stay...
...makes light of the discrepancies and Reiches Rauch. "My phone rings. 'Hello. Is this Robert Reich?'" he writes of a call from a "reporter in heat" who later snaps, "Where I come from, there are such things as journalistic ethics." A colleague of Rauch's who was within earshot swears there was no snapping and not a word about ethics. And Reich was returning Rauch's call, so no phone rang...