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...that Sydney Pollack wanted to meet me," says GREG KINNEAR, "I assumed he probably wanted me to come by and wax his car." In fact, the director wanted Kinnear--host of Later, NBC's post-Conan O'Brien talk show-to co-star in a remake ofSabrina, alongside HARRISON FORD and JULIA ORMOND. "I was disappointed when I found out he wasn't considering me for the part of Sabrina," Kinnear says of his first film role. "But hey, you take your lumps in show biz." Returning to earth--and Later--doesn't seem to have had a dampening effect...
Throughout American history, it's not so much a candidate's age as how he wears it that weighs on voters. William Henry Harrison was 67 when he ran for President in 1840, and judging from what passed for press reports at the time, no one seemed to care. Democrats tried to frighten voters after Eisenhower fell ill in 1955. "They ran ads saying that if you elected Eisenhower, you were going to get Nixon because [Ike] was going to die," says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania...
Several years later, Harrison went to New Yorkand studied the annual reports of The New YorkTimes. He approached the management with a plan todiversify the corporation's holdings by purchasinga series of small newspapers. The company gaveHarrison the green light, and he wound up managingabout three dozen small papers in the South...
...Harrison's affiliation with Harvard is equallyimpressive...
...says he enjoys vacationing in hisKennebunkport, Maine vacation home with his wife,Mary ("Dr. Mary," he insists proudly. "She justgot her Ph.D."), as well as playing with theircats, Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Harrison...