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Imagine you adore a blue-eyed young man with a pert nose and a soft wave of brown hair, and so you get your parents to take you to his latest movie, Me and Some Dead Guy Who Was Famous Once and the boy is even cuter than usual, but there's also this big guy, with crazy eyes and much less docile hair, who talks about Shakespeare (kill me now), insults everybody - the cute boy worst of all - and chews cigars and sometimes when he talks you see actual spit coming out of his mouth...
Have you found it difficult, having played such an iconic character, to attract different kinds of roles? It hasn't been hard at all. I think what's happening is once people hear me talk, they see the talent. They realize I'm not just a guy picked up off the street. It makes them more intrigued. I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working...
...turf battles with Blair have resulted in Panetta's being seen in a more positive light, and focused some criticism on Blair instead. "Denny's a good guy, but he should really focus on being the President's principal intelligence adviser, not on the operational stuff," says an Administration official. "Leon, of all people, certainly doesn't need to be micromanaged - and neither do the CIA folks in the field...
...Worse still, this isn't the first time Sarkozy has been accused of trying to claim a leftist hero as a representative of his own values. Two years ago, for example, he started an annual ritual that involves schoolchildren reading a patriotic letter written by French communist resistance fighter Guy Môquet before he was executed by the Nazis in 1941. During his 2007 presidential campaign, he also repeatedly quoted the seminal French socialist leader (and Panthéon resident) Jean Jaurès in an attempt to infer that the legendary leftist would have backed the positions...
Still, some viral stars, like Tsui, are proceeding with caution. ("I would like to eventually be known as more than just that guy on YouTube," he says.) For two years, Irena Schulz has been fielding media offers for Snowball the cockatoo, whose Backstreet Boys dance has been seen nearly 3.3 million times. The former molecular biologist in Dyer, Ind., chooses shows for her bird carefully and has drafted legal agreements to make sure he'll be portrayed in a positive light. But despite appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and Good Morning America, she says viral videos aren...