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...tells a story of himself working a slow night at Hynes Convention Center. "If not to make it worse, this guy spilled this whole jar of tomato sauce all over, so I helped him clean up [the glass]." Along came another passenger a bit later and Bianchi played hero, shouting to the man over the mike to watch out for the sauce. Pretty soon the puddle of Prego became the object of humor and caution for the rest of the night as Bianchi warned passengers and cracked jokes all night. Within a few nights, this character had a song about...
Three weeks ago, when McCain began comparing himself to a Star Wars hero--"I'm Luke Skywalker trying to get out of the Death Star"--the analogy seemed overblown. But by primary day in South Carolina, it seemed more than...
...introduction to Faith Of My Fathers, McCain bares the tattoo on his soul: "They were my first heroes," he writes of his father and grandfather, "and earning their respect has been the most lasting ambition of my life." As he tells their story, you wonder what kind of burden they represent, and what kind of gift. Sure, his father chain-smoked and drank too much, and his grandfather was a cusser, but both walk on water across the pages. His inheritance is both sword and shield: McCain too has his flaws, but he admits to them without fear because like...
...managed this? Because even as they hand out pictures of him in his flight suit, in a brochure that begins, "John McCain is an American hero," even as many in the crowd arrive with a copy of his best seller, he has been able to talk about his experience in a way that sounds humble--anyone in his position would have done the same thing, doesn't take a lot of talent to get shot down. And though many in the crowd conclude that he is made of different stuff, the suggestion that he's completely normal somehow lifts them...
...page 2,613), he teaches the creative writing he may no longer be capable of and carries on a tryst with the dean's wife (Frances McDormand). As someone says, "His heart kept beating only out of habit." Grady is the one thing a Hollywood hero is never allowed to be: tired...