Word: pal
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...store. One was his hiring of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid scriptwriter William Goldman, who put emphasis on off-color newsroom humor. The move caused an uproar: "The Post nearly backed out of the project then, and [Executive Editor Benjamin C.] Bradlee was blunt with Redford. 'Just remember, pal,' he said, 'that you go off and ride a horse or jump in the sack with some good-looking woman in your next film--but I am forever an asshole.' Redford was impressed: 'I've met few people who were as conscious of their position--and how to keep...
...most powerful men in Hollywood, he felt the need to prove himself all over again (with the kind help of an estimated $150 million parting package from Murdoch). This is the sort of itch you acquire when, even as your net worth is accreting into the low nine figures, pal David Geffen's is pushing a billion...
...phrases) blew away your reservations. For there was always something disarming in the forthright way that Kelly, who was born in Pittsburgh, the third of five children, and worked his way up out of the chorus line to Broadway stardom with his tough, taut performance in 1940's Pal Joey, stated his needs and his aspirations. These extended beyond the standard American desire to transcend one's past and transform one's limitations. For he was part of a generation that wanted to reinvent both the stage musical and the movie musical. It saw no reason why song and dance...
...discomfiting episode, Tom tries to set up his balding doctor pal Herb (Paul McCrane) with a lusty ad executive. When the plan seems to backfire, a crushed Herb laments that "it's all about looks, image, sex appeal." And then he adds, still without a trace of irony, "I thought it would be different when I got older. I thought people would judge me for my accomplishments. I saved a guy's life today, but nobody cares." Are those unexamining twentysomethings really so bad after...
Newt Gingrich had a favorite game when he was growing up in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. His pal Dennis Yantz would pretend to beat him up and leave him crumpled on the curb. "When a car would pull up to see what was wrong," Yantz recalls, "Newt would jump up and scream 'SURPRISE!' We would do this over and over again." For some reason, Yantz says, Newt always wanted to be the one who played dead...