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...wetlands where Howard Hughes once assembled his lumbering wooden "Spruce Goose" plane. DreamWorks wasn't leaving the area--it needs the specialized talent that lives there--yet Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan didn't want the project to go to neighboring Burbank or Universal City. Complains councilman Nate Holden, a Democrat who represents part of inner-city Los Angeles and was the lone dissenter when the council voted on the project: "We're being asked to help the rich. This is a bunch of fat cats getting together and giving to one another...
...only students eligible for independent study, however, are members of HRO, one of the four Holden choirs or students enrolled in a department course, thus excluding a good chunk of Harvard's music community...
...Picnic, as in real life, William Holden is every woman's dream: "'Is this what the women of America want?' asks a Hollywood producer. 'You mean...that the great lover of our time is a civic booster who recently served on the Los Angeles Park Commission?...No blue suede shoes, no moldy sweatshirts. He doesn't walk down Sunset Boulevard with an ocelot. He doesn't even have a Filipino houseboy. This is a movie star? He goes to P.T.A. meetings. He has been married to the same woman for 15 years. His swimming pool is not in the shape...
...verisimilitude in capturing the political spectrum, Primary Colors transcends the genre in creating a plot that departs from literal campaign history to better illuminate Henry Burton's loss of innocence and voyage of self-discovery. The novel pivots around Libby Holden (very loosely inspired by Betsey Wright), the Governor's former chief of staff, fresh from the loony bin, who calls herself "the Dustbuster" and sets about to clean up the mess from the candidate's self-destructive personal life. Holden is the classic truth teller--bound to the Stantons, but also sadly clear-eyed about how their youthful idealism...
...actually be funnier than Bogart's harder, more sardonic take on Linus. Ormond is no Audrey Hepburn, but Hepburn was sui generis, and Ormond does have a shy charm all her own. And there is a wastrely weakness about Kinnear's good looks that suits David more neatly than Holden's square-cut handsomeness...