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...Tunisia. North helped plan the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada and last April's Libyan air raid. It was not surprising that North turned up in Cyprus last week just when Released Hostage David Jacobsen arrived there. "Oliver North is the prototype of the modern American hero," says a friend and colleague. "Wherever and whenever Americans are in trouble, sooner or later you will see him at the scene...
...confirmed workaholic, North regularly puts in 16-to-18-hour days while in Washington. He dislikes paperwork, and once groused to a friend, "Every time a terrorist fires a bullet, we have to fill out a pile of papers." Colleagues quip that North's real power comes from two office computers hooked into the major U.S. intelligence-gathering agencies, and from a secure telephone line that he uses for classified conversations. For his own protection, the slender officer is rarely photographed or quoted in news accounts. "He is there to serve the President, and that is it," a colleague says...
...precise, nine Hollywood movies, the number he has appeared in over the past two years, making him one of the busiest actors in a town that twice blackballed him. "When you're hot you're hot," says his friend Jack Nicholson, whom Hopper helped convert from a featured player to a star with their 1969 film Easy Rider. "As an actor Dennis stands out because of his edge, his sincerity, the honesty he conveys. But Dennis also paints. He takes pictures. He's got an extremely fine eye for life. He's a great appreciator with a great vision...
...spent the following five years in Manhattan, studying with Lee Strasberg and appearing in more than 140 TV shows. He also met and married Brooke Hayward, the daughter of Producer Leland Hayward, and she introduced him to her friend Peter Fonda. Teaming for a series of low-budget motorcycle movies, Hopper and Fonda were ready to turn in their Harley-Davidsons when they decided to make just one more, for the money. "We saw it as a western, only on motorcycles," says Hopper. "We were the strangers in town, the outlaws." With Easy Rider, which Hopper directed, these cocaine-sniffing...
...understood not as an expression of complacency but as a ploy against anxiety. Nice enabled Matisse to stabilize things, to remain in the same frame of mind for days on end. "After a half century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there," he wrote to a friend. "Nature -- or rather, my nature -- remains mysterious. Meanwhile I believe I have put a little order in my chaos . . . I am not intelligent." Of course, Matisse painted his share of perfunctory images in Nice. But the overwhelming impression is of struggle and synthesis, of a mature artist who, having achieved...