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...first President Bush, fights between moderates and hard-liners within the Administration were nonexistent. How come? We trusted each other. We'd served together in prior Administrations in other iterations. And I never had a problem with any person trying to get between me and my President. What the hell, I'd run all his campaigns...
...Minding Her Manners In her review of the Tuscan hotel L'Andana [Sept. 4], Catherine Mayer says the general manager might remember her as "the Guest from Hell: high maintenance, capricious and, quite frankly, badly behaved." She adds, "I was only doing my job." But was it really necessary for her to engage in the absolutely obnoxious behavior she went on to describe? I'm sure that by the time she and her companions got through with the staff and management of L'Andana, the smug trio left behind more than a few bad feelings. I have close friends...
...would require hundreds of hours of interviews about my parents and the like, which I don't necessarily want to consider. I might discover all sorts of horrible things about myself." On the other hand, it might provide all sorts of suitably horrible material for another novel. What fresh hell will he invent next? "I haven't decided yet," says the bard of Shepperton. "I'm waiting for the next shift in the weather. I spend a lot of time looking...
...breakup album, at least not in the traditional sense. This isn’t the earnest mediocrity of Beck’s “Sea Change” or the frozen narcissism of The Mountain Goats’ “Get Lonely.” Hell, you can argue that it’s more complex even than that magnum opus of breaking-it-off, Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks.”Oldham (or his narrator—one can never be too sure with these poets) spends no time...
...Tuesday’s screening. He says he began anew from the novel, and discouraged his cast from watching the earlier version. Messer explains their attitude: “[Executive Producer] James Carville told us, ‘They’ve made eight movies on Hamlet. Hell, there’s only two on this one.’” The movie addresses Willie Stark’s duality as an effective governor and a corrupt man, stealing money even as he builds the roads and hospitals he promised the people. The producers expressed high hopes...