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...most dramatic example of this in Western history is Winston Churchill. It is no exaggeration to say that without him, Britain may well have been destroyed by Hitler. He was the difference between victory and defeat. But almost the minute that victory was declared, the voters turned on their hero. He lost the postwar election. Even more striking, he lost it in one of the biggest landslides in Britain's parliamentary history. He wasn't just defeated. He was buried...
Kaufman is sitting next to director Michel Gondry to promote their soon-to-be-released collaboration, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which Jim Carrey joins the growing list of actors who have played some version of Kaufman’s harried hero. The writer’s sense of humor, it becomes clear, is no more Carrey-esque in real life than it is on celluloid—at least, not in that mid-90s sense, when the world knew Sunshine’s star as the spastic man behind The Mask. Kaufman will at no point shout...
...dad’s one of my heroes. He’s a big hero for me. I wrote a piece about him for Fashions of the Times, the [New York] Times Sunday magazine. He worked two full-time jobs. He left the house when it was dark and came home when it was dark—in winter and summer, it didn’t matter. He worked so I could do what I wanted to do. He is a really heroic figure to me and never complained about work a day in his life, and is, at this...
According to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, represents a “war hero to oppose a war president in Bush...
...sublimely snide Hans Conried) is a musical megalomaniac who wants every child in the world to learn his Happy Fingers piano technique. Bart's mother Henrietta (Mary Healy) is hypnotized by the bad Doctor into becoming "second in charge of the whole Happy Fingers racket." And the putative hero, the music-loving plumber August Zabladowski (Peter Lind Hayes, Healy's frequent co-star and, for 58 years, her husband), is a complacent fellow who takes ages to take sides with Bart against...