Word: hughed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senior Clinton aides call the cabal the "core group." It includes Maria Victoria Arias, a Miami lawyer married to Hugh Rodham, the First Lady's brother; and wealthy businessman Paul Cejas, who occasionally stays overnight at the White House. Arias telephones Hillary frequently and often sends Clinton clippings from Florida newspapers. In regular meetings at the Colonnade Hotel in Coral Gables or at Little Havana's Versailles Restaurant, the core group plans strategy and prepares appeals, which are sent by way of private notes to Clinton's top political aides. "When an issue comes...
...disembodied head atop a glob of what looks like ground beef and pasta that is rolled onto the stage in a wheelbarrow; Lee Radziwell (Jackie's sister) as a child is shown as a three-foot-tall (gnomish) creature wearing a straw hat and a cardboard baby doll dress; Hugh Auchincloss is completely inanimate as a wrinkly amorphous head with a bodyless suit dangled below...
...Director Hugh Wilson (Guarding Tess) took the helm and thought the script was "too fluffy." He proposed big changes (in his version, for example, Keaton's child is retarded). "I wanted to make it more realistic and, I thought, funnier," he recalls. "I was saying, 'It's too easy; they all have money. What does a woman do who doesn't have money? And why the hell do they just have two children [among them]?' I thought it should be more in line with the average person." Now he says in relief, "Thank God I got talked...
...three stars playing to their strengths: Midler the canny yenta, Keaton mining lodes of pruney anguish, Hawn a glorious hoot encased in her collagenized lips and sprawling ego. And before the film gets haggard in Act III, it's pretty darn funny, thanks to director Hugh Wilson (who wove a camaraderie of losers in his TV show WKRP in Cincinnati), screenwriter Robert Harling (Steel Magnolias) and rewriter Paul Rudnick (The Addams Family...
...Extreme Measures, the bodies are still warm and kicking. Also writhing and babbling, at least in the case of one victim who escapes from his medical abductors and turns up in a New York City trauma room presided over by Dr. Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant). There the poor fellow sets all the diagnostic dials to spinning inexplicably. Not to mention Luthan's highly ethical brain. For the man dies in mysteriously untreatable agony, and then his body disappears before a proper autopsy can be performed. Investigating, Luthan soon finds himself conspired against--with his job, a fellowship, life itself...