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...twinkle in his eye too. But at 5 ft. 7 in., he looks like a stray from the Mickey Mouse Club. He's kind of bashful and aw-shucks looking when bidding begins on his jacket, a rainbow-colored affair bearing the name of his main sponsor--DuPont automotive finishes. Bidding starts at $500 and ends at $10,000, and I am stunned. Not by the price but by the idea that someone might leave the house wearing such a thing...
...Jeff has a good car and a good crew, which is a big part of his success," Evernham says. "But he also has something extra, like Michael Jordan and Mickey Mantle had. He has a different sense of time than you and I. He can slow the race down in his mind, see things coming around and react before the next guy." The key in a race, Gordon says, isn't to drop the hammer "but to tell yourself to be calm, be calm, be calm. And just have a lot of patience to let the race unfold...
...Summers does not lack confidence. Last week as he sat in his office joking with his Treasury aides, Summers ruminated on succeeding Rubin. He mused that it might be like replacing Yankee great Joe DiMaggio. And who remembers who replaced Joe DiMaggio? "It was Mickey Mantle," an aide answered. Larry Summers smiled. He already knew that...
...artist of immense detachment, he was also capable of the most cutting insights. His New York streets populated by freaks, stone-faced cops and ghastly youths of both sexes in Mickey Mouse hats are proof of that: the Mickey Mouse face, he told an interviewer, is "without character or age; for me it represents the junk-food people, the TV children, the spoilt young ones who have all their experiences, inferior as they are, handed to them on a plate." Nobody could say Steinberg was a particularly warm or approachable person. He loathed mediocrity and made no secret...
...Buzz Mickey Blue Eyes will probably be merely one among the many trite, cutesy and forgettable romantic comedies churned out by studios in the past few years. Let's hope that Grant's other summer movie, Notting Hill with Julia Roberts, fares better...