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...tool for wooing and wonder. The script challenges its star to be at once noble and fatuous, strong and swooning, utterly in control and desperately in love -- all of which Martin handles as gracefully as if he'd written it himself (which he did). And in case you forgot, the last film fellow to play Cyrano, Jose Ferrer in 1950, got a best-actor award. "I hope he wins an Oscar," says Martin Short, Steve's co-star in last year's Three Amigos!, "because he has prepared a tremendously funny acceptance speech. If the academy members want to hear...
...served in German POW camps until 1944, when he joined the anti-Soviet "Vlasov army" in Poland. Asked why he failed at first to tell U.S. authorities that he spent 18 months at a POW camp in Chelm, Poland, as he now insists, Demjanjuk said he forgot. When told that the Vlasov army had not been formed until months after he says he joined it, Demjanjuk pleaded, "Even here in Israel I do not know what month or date...
...left home long before, choking on prudence and rectitude, clawing at his collar for air. Exile was the bittersweet point of those fond and misty monologues about Lake Wobegon, the tiny, imaginary Minnesota town "that time forgot, that the decades cannot improve." The wry truth was that Garrison Keillor, celebrated shy person, uncorkable parlor baritone, world's tallest radio humorist, could abide the rural Midwest only in memory. Much of his audience had made the same journey, or nearly, and we loved to be persuaded, as we listened on public radio each Saturday to the extraordinary two-hour variety show...
Although O'Neill gradually rose to become the most powerful and prominent Speaker in the age of modern politics, he never forgot the local roots that helped him get there...
Caught up in the conviction of the moment, I almost forgot my own fear of feeling silly, of wasting my time. Feminism, I reasoned, had to be more to me than just theory read in course texts and discussed in section. Marching for a cause was a way for me to put my belief into action. I would, I hoped, feel the power that one speaker had conveyed when she shouted into the mike, "We are strong people, and we are in control of our lives...