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...show's fifth season. HBO lawyer Bert Fields dismissed the actor's attempt to hold a gun to the network's head: "It's really a water pistol--and it doesn't even have any water in it." You can see his point--like Hollywood isn't full of heavyset, balding actors to fill the part? Tom Arnold, your time...
Schiller sits across from Mailer now. A heavyset man with an amiable-anxious manner, he has worked with Mailer on four previous books. "It wasn't an easy road to travel with both our egos," Schiller says. It was Schiller who brought Mailer the interviews that were the seed of Mailer's last indisputably great work, The Executioner's Song, about Gary Gilmore's path to death row. Schiller figures in the book as one of the media carnivores who moved in on the story. Even if you don't count the chapter in which Schiller has diarrhea...
...mention the extravagantly tattooed road manager of the Beastie Boys' "Licensed to Ill" tour. Satisfied his posse looks sharp, Yan Ming commands: "Alright, everyone. Get ready to represent!" That's when the group's standard, which reads U.S.A. SHAOLIN TEMPLE, causes a commotion. "What an outrage!" exclaims a heavyset cop at the gates of the stadium. "There is absolutely no such thing!" He lurches toward Yan Ming as if ready to pounce, but then thinks better of it, and settles for confiscating the banner instead...
...self-impressed, vacuum-packed politicians, the avuncular Hastert has some natural advantages. Raised in northern Illinois, where he grew up on a farm, he's lived virtually all of his 59 years in his sprawling commuter district west of Chicago, which also includes Ronald Reagan's hometown. Heavyset and rumpled, Hastert looks a little like comedian Drew Carey. In public his staff addresses him as Mr. Speaker, but in private he prefers that they simply call him Denny. He shuns the Beltway talk-show-and-cocktail circuit and, at the end of the week, usually catches the first plane...
...catch? Actually there are a couple. Problem No. 1 is that the MA-IV is no featherweight. All told, I'm carrying nearly 2 kg of paraphernalia on me: the heaviest bits are the CPU (900 g) and the lithium-ion battery pack (450 g). Being, ahem, somewhat heavyset myself, I scarcely feel the extra weight at first; but after 30 minutes my neck and shoulders are strained from wearing the 400-g headset. With time, practice and some gym work, I could probably get used to the load. Luckily I won't have to. In a couple of months...