Word: fella
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...Hepburn returned to Hollywood, starring in the film version of the Philip Barry comedy she had performed in on Broadway. Cannily, she let her character be pushed around--literally, by Cary Grant--while radiating a patrician glow even Cate Blanchett couldn't match. James Stewart is the working-class fella who briefly obscures the Grant-Hepburn limelight, and George Cukor directs with his usual quiet mastery. Those lusciously long takes remind viewers that star quality, not editing, is the essence of classic Hollywood cinema. The DVD has some cool extras, including Hepburn's 1993 documentary self-portrait All About...
...another band, Bono's absences to lobby world leaders for African debt relief and AIDS assistance might have been corrosive, but while Mullen Jr. still refers to the singer as the "little fella" in moments of annoyance, those moments are increasingly rare. "Part of it is all of us being past 40," says Mullen Jr. "But the truth is, it's better for Bono not to be here. He gets frustrated and feels like he can be doing more important things, which I think he's proven is true." When he returns, the band is actually eager to talk politics...
...41st President once summed up the core of his equilibrium, which he pretty well maintained in his 40 years of public service, in the following way: "You, old fella, are the luckiest man in the entire world. You have a great wife, five wonderful children and 14 grandkids, all of whom give you happiness. You also have two nice houses, many caring friends, a wonderful small staff, and you have Sadie, a fine old dog. You have a lot of fishing rods and a boat. What more would...
MANCHESTER, N.H.—“I’m running against a fella who lives right south of here,” President Bush told a crowd of supporters on Friday, speaking just 20 miles from the Massachusetts border...
...City. Though he periodically left the theater--for a year at Yale Law School (at age 49) and a stint as a chef's apprentice--he always returned to the stage, helming such acclaimed Lincoln Center productions as the 1992 revival of Frank Loesser's musical The Most Happy Fella, a Tony-winning 1996 production of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance and last season's spiffy revival of Dinner at Eight...