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Thai Politician-Publisher Kukrit Pramoj 13 years ago took a respite from statecraft and journalism for a brief fling at the movies. In the film version of The Ugly American, Kukrit got surprisingly good reviews for his portrayal of the democratic Prime Minister of a mythical Southeast Asia nation called Sarkhan. The movie Prime Minister was besieged and almost overthrown by Communists, largely because of a meddling U.S. ambassador (played by Marlon Brando...
...Michael Fling Iowa City, Iowa...
...this mysterious tar-pounder? He was captain of his high school soccer and lacrosse teams, played semi-pro soccer and was on the ski patrol at a New York state ski area. He can grab a football and casually fling it 50 yards--in a perfect spiral...
Bill Carey went on a scoring fling, piling up a 64-40 spread with ten minutes remaining. The Red scored 17 points to Harvard's one during the spree...
Though he could think of some cases where an extramarital fling "might save a politician's sanity," said Democrat John V. Lindsay, 54, that philandering politician in the former New York mayor's first novel is strictly fiction. The central character in The Edge is dapper Mike Stuart, an ambitious Congressman with a wife, three children and a mistress. The author, insisted Lindsay, is an ambitious ex-Congressman with a wife and four children. Period. "As my old friend Bill Buckley said, there is a certain amount of obligatory sex in a book," Lindsay observed at a Manhattan...