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Stone the filmmaker is always on a weird trip, is ever on the edge of wetness; that salutary quality endears him to souls more timid and judicious. It is as if we had chosen him as our Designated Liver, to be our recording angel and exemplary fool, to be the '60s adventurer, to go to Yale and war, do drugs, have sex with all classes and colors of women, to make scenes and movies, to be the gonads and guilty conscience of his generation. And if we hadn't drafted him? Then Stone, as he did for Vietnam infantry service...
...important things before the unimportant things ("Habit 3: Put first things first"). America's corporate managers are notoriously gullible, of course, and the money they spend on a self-designated "leadership authority" like Covey is usually not their own. But parents are supposed to be harder to fool. By transplanting his wisdom into the burgeoning field of family books, he's betting they aren't. He may be right...
...Dave) with an eccentric role in a smaller film (like last year's Fierce Creatures). He switches--almost as though compelled to do so--from dark dramas like The Ice Storm to broad comedy like In & Out, movies he made back to back. He can play the fool or the hero, but typically prefers to morph them into something new. In an industry in which casting generally reflects a movie star's ability to sell tickets, Kline is that rare exception--an actor whose unique talent has kept his name above the title regardless of his ability to affect...
...television, jolting with tears as she listened to a speech praising and defending her work, one saw signs of an almost delusional inner drama. If power corrupts the self, then absolute fame must surely distort it. Her enthusiasms were crankish, hypochondriac, self-obsessive: aromatherapy, colonic irrigation, the fool's gold of astrology. Diana, I repeat, was "soft" news. She caused sensations by wearing a party dress or by gaining a kilo of weight. She made headlines with every wave of her hand, every twitch of her eyebrow. This is why her death--her metamorphosis into hard news--feels so savage...
...paper's April Fool's issue, Ed Waingortin wrote a parody of HBS efforts to recruit women. The Women students' Association responded critically to the piece in a subsequent issue. Waingortin's piece in the April 28th issue, "Parody Revisited," was a response to the letter...