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...course, will play the perfect fool. I will cry as I did at your older brother's wedding, and as I will at your younger brother's, when it comes to that. I cry at the weddings of perfect strangers (they can be perfect too). Don't mind me when I cry. It's just my way of enjoying myself...
Technically, that's so, but Faye's no fool; it's likely she knows exactly how to track down any of her clients in about two minutes...
Warren Beatty once said every American boy grows up knowing that he can decide he wants to be President or that he wants to fool around--though that was not the more graphic term he used. I do not think Mr. Beatty--who knows something about both sex and politics--meant this only literally. The point is that from the time you're in junior high you understand there is a choice: you can live your life as though you know you will someday have to testify about yourself at a Senate confirmation hearing, or you can say, The hell...
What I think Mr. Beatty is really talking about is the old American duality of hipness vs. squareness. The words have changed over time--coolness vs. geekiness, fly vs. fool--but the concept is as venerable as the separation between church and state. Growing up, every American boy has to figure out whether he wants to be like Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer, Mickey Mantle or Roger Maris, Dennis Rodman or Michael Jordan, John Lennon or Paul McCartney...
...Three months ago the FBI believed his capture was imminent. Today his trail is as cold as a misty winter's morning in his native Smoky Mountains. Even the report that a truck registered to Rudolph had run a Colorado roadblock on April Fool's Day hasn't changed the feds' belief that Rudolph could just as easily be holed up under a rock (or in an empty holiday house) in the harsh mountain forests of Cherokee County, S.C., as he could be basking on a California beach. "Early on the FBI was very confident of capturing him," says TIME...