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...Sunstein seemed not to struggle with was romance. According to McArdle, most Middlesex graduates entered college with a distinct uneasiness around the opposite sex, but Sunstein managed to overcome this with his natural charms. McArdle recalls that Sunstein was “in many ways...kind of a chick magnet because he had this very innocent look and was bright.”It was not until his third and senior year at Harvard that he decided to enter law school instead of pursuing English graduate work, Sunstein said in a 2008 interview with Fifteen Minutes...
...would never want to put someone else's life in danger when they have to sit next to the bullet magnet. But if I'm wanted, if I'm needed, then I will serve my country as I signed up to do." - Washington Post...
...other fields, the fact is that after her big splash she made only ancillary ripples. She did receive a Tony nomination in the play Mrs. Patterson (and two more, for the 1978 musical Timbuktu and, in 2000, for The Wild Party); but she didn't become the Broadway magnet she should have been. In the late '50s she had featured roles in The Mark of the Hawk, with Poitier, and St. Louis Blues, with Nat "King" Cole, and the lead in Anna Lucasta, a daring B film with Sammy Davis Jr. She cut a powerful figure in all these films...
...Duncan was hired to run Chicago's magnet schools program. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley tapped Duncan to be schools chief in 2001, after first offering the job to someone else. Duncan was only 36 and had never before held a high-powered post and had never even had his own secretary, according to the Chicago Tribune. The Chicago school system is the third-largest in the country...
...that was the '80s, when directors still wanted to hire him. He pissed away what should have been his prime by curling inside the legend of the Difficult Star, acquiring an odor for being rowdy and unreliable. And since he wasn't a box-office magnet, why take the chance? Bio stats on the Internet Movie Database synopsize Rourke's '90s: "Turned down Bruce Willis' role in Pulp Fiction ... Filmed a role in [Terrence Malick's] The Thin Red Line that eventually got cut ... Walked off the set of Luck of the Draw when the producers refused...