Word: eliane
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...saved by a fisherman and becomes the center of a political conflict between the U.S. and Cuba. It's a terrific story... Imagine 70 soldiers attacking a home to capture a little boy." Thus ran the probable Hollywood pitch by legendary schlock producer Menahem Golan for his Elian Gonzalez biopic, currently in production in Cuba and the odds-on favorite to beat rival projects from CBS and the Fox Family Channel onto screens...
...better known for such cinematic gems as "Death Wish" and "Raid on Entebbe," is notoriously quick at rushing stories to screen - his most recent effort was a low-budget screamer about the Miami shooting of Gianni Versace. So although Golan promises to be first and claims to have presold "Elian: The Gonzalez-Boy Story" (yes, that's the title) in five countries, including Germany, its real revenue stream may lie in its potential to be rented for years after by a cult audience of college-age stoners...
...alleged corruption as head of the American mission at the 1998 World Exposition in Portugal. (That made him refuse to go on TV to spin for Gore, something a good campaign boss must do.) Coelho also dispensed some lousy tactical advice, encouraging Gore to insert himself into the Elian Gonzalez imbroglio, a move widely ridiculed as the worst sort of pandering...
...split dramatically over every item on the agenda: Abortion, gay rights, gun control, hate crime laws, capital punishment, affirmative action, Elian Gonzalez. And so on. Nothing is orthodox or unorthodox anymore. We are all fist-shaking schismatics. Cultural pluralism gets wistful for certitudes. Inside every fox, there's a hedgehog ranting. Let me count some of the ways: Last week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) demonstrated at the CBS offices in New York. They said they were angry because contestants on the CBS game show "Survivor" were roasting and eating rats. "RATS HAVE RIGHTS," the placards said...
...fight in the bathroom, didn't seem so psyched on Stanford despite our admittedly exaggerated description of seminars on video games. And the instrument thing, partly owing to some oboe trash talking on my part, wasn't going anywhere. There were nights when I dreamed of switching him with Elian, but that may have been more about my freakish need for media attention...