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...tend to be complex people. But most of them camouflage their complexity because voters--especially presidential voters--are not usually enamored of nuance. John McCain is a complex man--ironic and earnest, driven and fun-loving, self-assured and self-deprecating--but his concern with honor is like a golden thread woven through his remarkable life of service. In the cover story of our special Republican Convention issue, McCain's abiding concern with honor is the prism through which James Carney and Michael Grunwald look at the Republican presidential nominee. Carney, our Washington bureau chief, has covered both of McCain...
...still doing theater off-off-Broadway and I was doing film. Yes it's porn, but it still goes into theaters. They still had acting back then. They had big scripts. There were no videos back then, no DVDs, no Internet. I came at a time they called the Golden...
...Dust Bowl picture-poem Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and would go on to write the novel A Death in the Family and the African Queen screenplay with John Huston. (He also worked vagrantly with Manny on a never-completed script.) Agee was the alcoholic Episcopalian golden boy to Manny's cranky Jewish mensch, and that may have stoked jealousy and resentment. How was Manny to know that Agee, however lauded in his time (he died at 51 in 1955), would in the long run be the white elephant to Manny's termite? No, let's be fairer: Charlie...
...Hollywood. Yet, however strong their bite or bitter their first taste, they're afraid to let the moviegoer leave with a dark thought in his mind; they require happy endings. That's one reason the typical modern movie is no more advanced than the sentimental antiques of Hollywood's Golden Age - and why Hamlet 2 is as needy as its hero - because it wants not to be probing or profound or even witty but, above all else, to be loved...
...This is the story of friends--just friends--who buy houses together because they are young and don't have a lot of money but smell opportunity in a soft real estate market and want to start building equity ASAP, even if it comes before the wife, kids and golden retriever. "On my own, I might have been able to buy a one-bedroom condo, but that would have been pushing it," says Kovack. Instead, he and Katz live in a 2,300-sq.-ft. (about 215 sq m) three-bedroom row house with stainless-steel appliances and a deck...