Word: fullers
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...reactions in the book, Kidder says he aimed “to acknowledge the kind of discomfort that one’s bound to feel from time to time in the company of a guy like that”—to make his book truer and fuller than “a campaign biography...
...Rehnquist does step down, don't expect a bipartisan buddy system to play much of a part in choosing his successor. George W. Bush has already parried a request made this month by the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, for a fuller dialogue between the White House and Democrats on any high-court nominees. And if Sandra Day O'Connor should also retire this year, the struggle over her replacement could be judicial Armageddon, because O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy have been the court's crucial swing votes. If Bush could replace her with...
American Idol proved there are teenagers--not just tweens and men recently released from prison--who like to see wholesome singing and dancing, the kind you saw on Ed Sullivan. Early Ed Sullivan. When American Idol was launched, creator Simon Fuller assumed teens would coronate slutted-out model wannabes, as they did in the English version of his show. But while we might sell our Baywatch image to the world, when the children of Wal-Mart get to vote for their stars, they choose talent. The kids, it turns out, may be too all right...
...Fuller decided to make the movie about halfway through the first TV series, hoping the final two contestants would be a guy and a woman. He told the final few contestants they would be up for roles if they won, and they all, as you would imagine, agreed to sign up. Then Fuller hired his brother Kim to write the movie. Kim's only other script was Spice World, a movie starring the Spice Girls, the group Simon created...
DIED. ROBERT STACK, 84, grimacing movie stalwart; of heart failure; in Los Angeles. Over a 60-year career, he is best remembered as Eliot Ness in TV's The Untouchables. But the L.A. native was equally impressive in 1950s epics by Budd Boetticher (The Bullfighter and the Lady), Samuel Fuller (House of Bamboo) and William Wellman (The High and the Mighty). Beneath his rugged looks and rough voice, Stack often suggested a psychic danger, an imminent imploding that got him an Oscar nomination for Written on the Wind and gave his Ness the undertone of obsessiveness: a G-man Javert...