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...responsibilities to his deputies, he confesses, but "even if some of my Cabinet ministers wanted to give public talks, nobody would come." And the single most difficult thing in his life, he admits, is "meeting with politicians. Realistically speaking, it's just symbolic. They cannot do much." Yet, as Helen Tworkov, editor in chief of the New York Buddhist magazine Tricycle, puts it, the simple, paradoxical fact is that "he needs people with money, he needs people with power, he needs people with influence...
...actress said I kiss badly. Helen Mirren. But I never kissed her, as far as I remember...
...answer: just wait. "Helen's an old soul," says her manager and business partner, Connie Tavel, who met Hunt 15 years ago on a women's baseball team. (Typically, Hunt worked so hard honing her skills as a second baseman that at season's end, she was voted "most improved player.") "She was never an ingenue. Now she's growing into her old self. The part of her that kept her from roles at 19 has given her balance and success...
...inspired to start sketching again. This drab waitress--she's so beautiful: "You're why cavemen chiseled on walls." Brooks insisted that the scene not be leering, because "these days the world is so damn foul. Before, it was, 'Tee-hee, there's a nude scene of Helen Hunt.' Now somebody freeze-frames it and sells T shirts." The actress (who had a topless love scene with Eric Stoltz in a poignant scene in the 1991 movie The Waterdance) needed no persuading. "I wanted some sense of modesty," she says, "but also for it to be clear that...
...many, if not all, of the great women. Then there was this one who was too young. And she was good. Real good." Now he--all right, like everybody--is a true Helenist. "There are lots of false idols being bowed to in Hollywood today," he says, "but Helen worships the right god. Instead of 'Please make me a movie star, please make me adorable, please make me wonderful,' she says, 'Please make me true, please make me serve the character, please make me funny...