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...Vice President was showering him with roses--a spectacle that's likely to continue this week, if Gore finishes off Bradley on Super Tuesday. In the press room during the debate, Bradley's campaign chairman, Doug Berman, watched with a resigned eye as Gore heaped praise on the loser. "He should just come out and endorse us," Berman said, a trace of bitterness in his voice...
...picture this lovely doesn't come along every day, but it used to. Until the greed-is-wonderful 1980s, the figure Douglas portrays was a regular in American culture--the beautiful loser, the shimmering failure, the mess who for all his stumbles in the slush still strove for something honorable and was honored by the greater world in which he gloriously flopped...
...some ways, it is easier to be an American winner than a loser, which had certain definite requirements...
...loser had to be blissfully out of things; he walked around in a sort of self-assured daze. "Don't blame me, Lady," said the extravagantly out-of-it Oscar Levant in a movie of the 1940s. "I didn't make the world. I barely live...
...Request Live host Carson Daly--you know, the people who really count on a night like this. Then she turns to the reporter in the car with her. "Did I sound O.K. onstage?" she asks. "I was in shock. I was preparing at that moment to put on my loser face." She's got on a winner's face now. Her award (for which she beat out fellow teen star Britney Spears) helps certify Aguilera's credentials as a real singer (as opposed to whatever it is that Spears does) and will provide her with more say in her career...