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Pennsylvania is really three states. Philadelphia is part??of the liberal Northeast, Pittsburgh is Midwestern, and the center of the state is rural and conservative. Philly could be the key: Kerry needs to win by a big margin by turning out 35,000 newly registered voters. He will also try to win the Pittsburgh area. Bush will try to prevail in the Philly suburbs. He's even courting the Amish...
...actions are needed." Carter agreed to let Solomon fire Griffin, despite the objections of O'Neill, who called the dismissal "one of the worst things I have ever seen in personnel matters." Solomon said the firing was "not related to any allegations of impropriety or wrongdoing" on Griffin's part???only a move to tighten Solomon's control over the agency...
...conversation was obliterated. The multiple short erasures were amateurish: a single long erasure would be far more likely to have been interpreted as an accident. Even after making all of the short starts and stops ?apparently listening to a portion, then erasing it, then moving on to another part???a shrewder operator would have activated a final continuous sweep of the tape past the erase head. This might have erased the telltale marks on the tape...
...accident that Scott's tripartite ideal is a human being first. His own life, and his intuitive ability to use it at the right time in the right role, is his fundamental resource. As a great actor, he achieves something new in every part???something of himself reborn, fathered by insight, nurtured by skill and imagination. Scott also offers something more. Always, just below the surface, there is an incessant drumbeat of anger. Says Jose Ferrer, who directed him in The Andersonville Trial on Broadway: "It's a concentrated fury, a sense of inner rage, a kind of controlled madness...
...days later, Nichols called Hoffman to tell him that he had won the part???which was to pay him a fast $17,000. "We're in business," he said. "You came up with just the kind of confused panic the character is supposed to have." The rest is mystery. Hoffman himself admits, "If The Graduate were better, it wouldn't have done as well." And neither would he. Today his film price is $425,000; for Jimmy Shine, he receives $4,500 a week against 10% of the gross receipts. But then, the cost of living has risen. The psychoanalyst...