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...national eye. The line between idealism and opportunism is ever thin as paper. But in Willie's relentless, utterly insatiable appetites there is something beyond the powers of political commentary or literary criticism to convey. It is much more than a conventional ambition, a presidential dream. Lots of men entertain that fantasy. What drives him is an unacknowledged anarchy of the soul. There is no reason why Willie must possess aristocratic Anne Stanton (Kate Winslet), daughter of the state's last great Governor and the woman Burden has impotently loved his entire life. It is just that she is there...
...wonder, cuts through all of it with crystalline joy. Suga Mama ("I'ma be like your Jolly Rancher, that you get from the corner store/ Or I'ma be like a waffle cone that's drippin' down to the floor") is another song so exuberant in its desire to entertain that it literally invites you onto...
...What did you set out to accomplish with Overheard in New York? The blog has a couple of objectives. The most obvious is that it's a humor blog - its purpose is to entertain. At the same time, there are a couple more subtle things happening. One is that the actual way people talk is very different than the way we think people talk. When you're watching a TV show like Friends, the dialogue from the script is nothing like the way people actually talk to one another - random and full of non-sequiturs. OHinNY tries to capture authentic...
...worked as an assistant director on four other Jackson films, says of the actor, "Unless the director is a total jerk, he's always very respectful. But he's a tireless advocate for the film he read in the script and pictured in his head. He so wants to entertain people, and folks in the movie business often forget that's what our mission...
...course, Jackson mostly wants to entertain himself. So he will make sure to get to a Snakes screening on opening weekend--"I'm looking for a full theater, hopefully where people will shout at the screen," he says--and he remains in the hunt for his personal filmic holy grail. Not an Oscar-winning role ("Uh, have you seen some of the people who have Academy Awards?" he asks, laughing) but a genuine old-fashioned western. "I want horses," he says. "I want to stand in the middle of the street and see if I'm faster than somebody...