Word: pal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McConaughey was the only actor that Schumacher and Grisham could agree on for the role. Still, Schumacher was worried that the film might founder on the tiny pebble of its star's anonymity. So he eliminated it. At Christmas he mentioned to his close pal Liz Smith that her fellow Texan was hot stuff. She duly noted it in her column. "I've never even met Matthew McConaughey," Smith admits. "But I trust what Joel tells me." Schumacher then hosted a screening of the unfinished film for New York City's media elite. Out of that came a Vanity Fair...
...outlines of "The Nutty Professor" go back to our old pal(s) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and, more specifically, the Jerry Lewis classic by the same name. In this version, however, the professor, Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy, thanks to seamless makeup) consumes a formula that cures both the excessive frumpiness and (in a twist on the original film) lumpiness that he believes might hamper his success with an attractive young grad student (Jada Pinkett). The new Klump, under the alias Buddy Love, proves devious and reckless in his pursuits, threatening the research money sought so assiduously by the unctuously...
...violence and, not least, to rub elbows with the Juice. With security provided by the Nation of Islam, the night was one of image repair for America's most dubiously innocent man. Attorney F. Lee Bailey, fresh from the slammer, pronounced his own jail stay "not so great." Simpson pal and chauffeur A.C. Cowlings seemed proud when a guest praised his driving. Outside Simpson's gates protesters clamored, but inside, Simpson charmed the antiviolence folks. If you can't beat them, have them over for dinner...
ANTONIN SCALIA Ginsburg's old pal can't shake habit of caustic dissents. Exhibit A: May's gay-rights ruling...
...eponymous presidential adviser. Kennedy in his remarks called his staff "Washington specialists," mystifying the crowd, who wondered whether he employed podiatrists or editors. You could tell you weren't in L.A. when former Nixon aide Leonard Garment picked the movie Nixon to win every category but one, and Clinton pal and lawyer Vernon Jordan said he wasn't paying attention to any event pushing a pig for a prize. National Endowment for the Arts chairwoman Jane Alexander headed upstairs to the Cafritzes' bedroom to watch the show in peace (she won the pool). Carolyn Bessette, Kennedy's girlfriend...