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Paltrow may not be able to--or care to--parlay the role of this adorable meddler into a multimillion-dollar picture deal, as Clueless's Alicia Silverstone did. Still, Emma could conceivably vault Paltrow from her current status as bright ingenue to the top of the list of serious young actresses who combine Oscar eclat and box-office clout--a little Streep, a little Sandra Bullock. Anyway, Emma is a showcase part, handsomely played...
JOEY BUTTAFUOCO, fresh out of a second prison stint after violating his parole, is working on a new kind of sentence. According to the New York Daily News, the Long Island mechanic whose teenage girlfriend shot his wife is trying to parlay his notoriety into a publishing deal for his debut literary effort, Joey Buttafuoco's How to Avoid Car Rip-Offs. "The world is full of scammers," he says, "but that's not how the Buttafuocos do business...
...complete only half a correspondence course toward a high school diploma, grew a mustache to look older and try to qualify for jobs in local auto factories. He quickly moved from low-level design work to engineering to sales in various firms, garnering experience in one post to parlay into another. By the time he was 21, his job had transferred him out of Detroit and into New York City and the land of hungry investors...
Remember that gentlemanly parlay between President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich in New Hampshire on Sunday? Better hold onto the memory. Today, the old partisan Gingrich came out swinging with accusations that the White House has been lying aboutGOP proposals to reform Medicare. He also told a Manchester radio station that a group of "very bitter left-wing Democrats"pushing ethics complaints against himhas "no ideas about welfare, they have no ideas about health care, they have no ideas about crime and they don't have any ideas aboutbalancing the budget. The only thing they can do is smear...
TIME's Carney, who attended, says Clinton's "rousing speech" galvanized an otherwise soporific DLC parlay and persuaded many moderate Democrats that the president would reposition himself to their liking. (Clinton antagonist McCurdy, Carney reports, was so enthusiastic that he said blurted out, "That's the Bill Clinton we've been waiting for" -- a remark that drew a momentary frown from the president, who had avoided directly criticizing McCurdy.) "Are they going to play it safe, or be bold in taking on the Republicans?" Carney asks. "The signal Clinton issued was that they're going to be bold and challenge...