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...Carson's institution, and Leno must make it his own. "Letterman," Leno says, "is a comedy show that happens to have guests. The Tonight show is a talk show that happens to have comedy." Leno is adept with the comedy; the guests are a problem. While Leno is peerless as a monologist, his interviewing is still amateurish. He sometimes seems like a guest on his own show, polite and admiring -- an usher at the wedding, not the groom...
Consider the FBI. In 1963 few dissented from the view that its director, J. Edgar Hoover, was a peerless, incorruptible leader, a gangbuster nonpareil. He said so himself. Now, we may not want to agree with the conclusion of the latest FBI-centered conspiracy-theory book Act of Treason: The Role of J. Edgar Hoover in the Assassination of President Kennedy. The author, Texas attorney Mark North, accuses Hoover of deliberately withholding knowledge of a Mafia assassination plot against J.F.K. because he hated the Kennedy brothers and had enough dirt on L.B.J. to control him. But North's accumulation...
...Henry Miller -- his middle name was Valentine -- was born the day after Christmas, 100 years ago, and spent the next 88 years as a professional enthusiast, making a living out of pleasure and a music out of saying yes. Where an Old World master, like the peerless Graham Greene, could write elegant circles around doubt, hedging belief in with a knot of moral ironies, Miller just went straight to faith. From the first page of his first book, Tropic of Cancer -- "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive" -- through 50-odd books about...
When Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to their first N.B.A. championship last week in a lopsided 4-1 series against the Los Angeles Lakers, he removed the last shadow on a peerless career: the notion that great players who never win a title are somehow less great than those who do. In truth, brilliant individual players are not always brilliant team players, and that is why their teams do not always win championships. But in conquering the Lakers, Jordan did the very thing that is often hardest for a virtuoso talent: he used his genius to raise the talents...
...very little dialogue at all; half an hour passes with hardly a word spoken except in Tamashek, the language of the Tuareg nomads, with whom Kit hitches a fateful ride. But there are many profound images of the desert in all its pitiless grandeur, courtesy of Bertolucci and his peerless cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro. The wind sculpts mountains and minarets out of the shifting sand. On a rocky spot where Port and Kit have just made desperate love, the setting sun alights for a moment as if in benediction...