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...whatever). Most people also hate that other closely related species: the fidgeter, who spins pens or reorders papers or plays with his phone during meetings. (I stand guilty as charged. On occasion, I have also been known to whisper.) We doodlers, fidgeters and whisperers always get the same jokey, passive-aggressive line from the authority figure at the front of the room: "I'm sorry, are we bothering you?" How droll. But the underlying message is clear: Pay attention...
...replace Olmert is a politician with an ironclad reputation for honesty and integrity--she famously insists on always picking up her own tab, even if it's just for a plate of hummus. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is in many ways Olmert's opposite. The Prime Minister is a jokey backslapper and charmer, a consummate pol with expensive tastes in cigars, flashy wristwatches and fountain pens; Livni, 49, is a no-nonsense former Mossad agent who eschews small talk, avoids the Bar Mitzvah circuit most Israeli politicians use to rack up favors and lives quietly in a modest Tel Aviv...
...Black: We did a lot of guerilla marketing that cost us next to nothing, just to try and catch the attention of anybody. We did lots of jokey sort of stuff: Ed and I were posing for pictures with bookmakers in coffins which is arguably a little distasteful but, you know, you had to do that sort of thing if you wanted to catch the attention of the papers. And all of this because we didn't have any money to spend. So a typical company, launching in the dotcom world at that time, would have had a huge marketing...
...wasn't anxious to jump and do anything else. I'm very careful to work with first time directors. I had worries. I thought this is a really tricky piece of material, really well written, but there's a lot of traps. It could end up being jokey, which it can't be, if you're not incredibly adept. We finally met after I finished Good Night and Good Luck. I spent a seven or eight hour lunch with Tony, who I had never met before. We hung out. By the end of it, on top of thinking he could...
...ever going to guest-star on The Office, USA? -Earl Ellingson, VancouverI resisted that for a very good reason. I thought it would look a bit in-jokey or desperate. But now I think it's a safe environment to pop up in. Maybe they could watch an episode of Extras, and Michael Scott could go, "This guy is not very good. I hear they're doing an American remake...