Word: gig
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...just a hair under an hour. Dern’s fame—on and off campus—hasn’t quite gone to his head, though he does admit, in true reality TV star fashion, that he hopes to parlay this into a record contract or gig at a comedy club. And who knows after that? Guess we’ll all have to tune...
...usually up, because I'm a bit of an insomniac. So it's perfect. They're paying me well. They're treating me well. It's a good gig for me. I'm trying to do as much as I can to make life as comfortable as I can, because I have the luckiest life ever. I am doing what I want to do, the way I want to do it. I'm healthy, my kids are healthy, my grandkids are healthy. And I'm an American. What's better than that...
...version of the Bay Area town he grew up in. This one centers on a group of girls who are obsessed with fortune telling. So Portman has put aside his lifelong dream of rock stardom. "I'm focusing on books right now," he says. "It's a much better gig...
...more than 25 years at the CIA and White House for making cold calculations not only about the intelligence he was poring over but also about how to choose his allies as he zipped to the top ranks of the CIA in record time. Now in a late-inning gig that no one expected--least of all Gates--he is about to take over the Pentagon and the day-to-day responsibilities for a war gone bad. He brings to the task one advantage: he was a key member of the special commission headed by former Secretary of State James...
...educational and industrial films; and young Bob got his start directing some 60 shorts for companies like General Motors and DuPont. He had tried Hollywood right after his war service (during which he co-piloted B-24 bombers), but his only official work was an uncredited story gig on the 1947 Christmas Eve. "I'd go to California and try to write scripts," he told Tibbetts, "but then return, broke, to Calvin. Each time they'd drop me another notch in salary...