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...Brando at a White House dinner with President John F. Kennedy: "As Marlon attacked the pasta, Kennedy challenged him: 'Marlon, have you gained weight? Looks like you've put on a few.''Nary an ounce.''Kennedy grinned. "Then the CIA sent up some wrong information.'Marlon bet the president that JFK weighed more than he did. A bathroom scale was brought into the room. Brando checked in at 187 pounds. Kennedy was eleven pounds lighter.'Get some food into this man,' Marlon told the other guests. 'You can't lead the country at a hundred seventy...
...there are songs too - good ones by Elton John, with lyrics by Lee Hall, who wrote the original film - but they are so tightly woven into the action that you almost hate to single them out. There are anthem-like chorus numbers and vaudeville throwbacks, political drinking songs ("Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher") and those with simple, John Lennon-like lyricism. But all of them seem utterly fresh and inseparable from the story they enliven and enhance. The show's centerpiece, of course, is Billy's dancing, which ranges from tap numbers to classical ballet, as well as a striking...
Such statements stressing the role of female responsibility and the benefits of “lifelong monogamy” dominated a conversation led by Dr. John Diggs in Ticknor Lounge last night. The discussion, entitled “Sex Ed: The Sequel. What they didn’t tell you,” was sponsored by True Love Revolution, the student advocacy group that promotes premarital abstinence...
...don’t have a national media to make sure we don’t say things our better natures would regret. And I suppose, unlike John McCain, we feelempowered to abandon the student organizations we nurtured and were nurtured by at the first sign of personal failure...
...documents, obtained by TIME, include internal prosecution e-mails given to the Justice Department and Congress by a whistle-blower during the past 18 months. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which investigated the Siegelman case as part of a broader inquiry into alleged political interference in the hiring and firing of U.S. Attorneys by the Bush Justice Department, last week sent an eight-page letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey citing the new material...