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...MONICA CROWLEY Author, Nixon in Winter For too long this President has allowed his opponents to set his agenda. To regain control over the dialogue, he has to rally the base. No President can survive without core support. For Nixon, the final nail in the coffin was when Barry Goldwater said, There's nothing we can do for you. Bush can win back his base with his next Supreme Court choice. He should also get back to his original domestic agenda and his strengths on the foreign-policy side. He should talk about progress being made in Iraq...
...when he was a recent arrival in Hollywood, writing scripts for MGM. Nine pages later, he's not only describing the Marx Brothers jumping all over Somerset Maugham, "screaming like devils," but also watching Aldous Huxley and Charlie Chaplin singing old London music-hall songs on the Santa Monica Pier. No wonder the unchanging center of Isherwood's life, the Hindu Vedantist teacher Swami Prabhavananda, asked his worldly disciple to bring the Duke of Windsor to his Hollywood temple: Isherwood was the rare Hollywood Hindu who did justice to both the adjective and the noun...
...glossy page. NBC, so worried that the whole network will shrivel up and die, took it one disturbing step further by adding television monitors featuring clips of the show to the shirts of some officially titled “Adwalker-brand ambassadors” (read: pretty women) in Santa Monica at an outside mini-premiere of “Earl”—ensuring that the “this show will follow you EVERYWHERE” vibe was maintained...
...hands), “Boston Legal” was an enjoyable trifle. Then, mysteriously, it was kidnapped late last season by four aging, idiotic women whose show’s only redeemable quality is that its theme song is written by Danny Elfman. But the ever-appealing Monica Potter has been removed, and the even more appealing (and British) Rhona Mitra will soon follow her out the door. Candace Bergen’s tired act belongs in one of her old Sprint commercials. Even Captain Kirk and the guy from “Stargate” can?...
...months on end. (Quarantines worked to control the SARS epidemic because SARS is much less contagious than flu and has a longer incubation period.) That doesn't mean we won't have quarantines. "Politicians will be under a lot of pressure to demonstrate that they are doing something," says Monica Schoch-Spana, a medical anthropologist at the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh...