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...actress and model Elizabeth Hurley's estranged partner, multimillionaire Hollywood producer Stephen Bing, a complete idiot [PEOPLE, Dec. 17]? Unlike Bing, I would do anything to be a loving husband to Hurley and father to her child. I am a 23-year-old, soon-to-be graduate student. I speak three languages; I am witty, intelligent, well traveled and highly athletic. I can rebuild a carburetor and make a bed. I would not disappoint Hurley. ROBERT IVAN Boulder, Colo...
...have a Man of Faith in the White House" who "handpicked the very best people for his cabinet." Some liked "the way he has matured as a leader of our country," while others appraised his development more bluntly: "Prior to 9-11, he was perceived as a bumbling idiot, incapable of true leadership. His response to 9-11 has proven to the world that he is a man of compassion, patience, and action." ... "The dummy act was over and the strong, unintimidated commander in chief, rose to the occasion." ... "We weren't sure about him until the attacks...
...times of crisis, the nation loses its short-term cultural memory - puts aside idiot movie comics, suicidal rock lyrics, must-see reality TV and the pursuit of the moral triviality that is Gary Condit - and, like a senior citizen finding solace in the distant past, rekindles that old feeling. In pop culture, at least for a while, many Americans traded in cool pop culture for warm, sarcasm for sentiment, alienation for community. In the blink of a national tragedy, we went from jaded to nice, just like that...
...Astaire, who danced to it in the 1946 "Blue Skies." But Astaire was the third star to sing it on film. First was Harry Richman, who had a #1 hit when he premiered the song in a 1930 film of the same name. Dear Mr. Gable "sang" it in "Idiot?s Delight," in 1939; then Astaire made it his own. For Mel Brooks fans, the definitive rendition is by Peter Boyle, as the top-hatted monster in the 1974 "Young Frankenstein." We have to wonder what Berlin thought of this interpretation, or of the jaunty techno-pop version that went...
Anyone who sentimentalizes childhood is, of course, an idiot. Childhood is an ordeal and a journey--dangerous, magical, sometimes humiliating and, since you are at the mercy of adults, fairly weird. Little Andris Grof's childhood was somewhat more...