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...other than I had the experience of having the number one movie in North America for three weeks running, and agents and studio heads would suddenly talk to me who wouldn't before. But then after I made Dead Ringers in 1988 I was weird again, you know, persona non grata...
Sittenfeld's audacious gamble is that she can make the reader understand why someone as civilized as Alice would fall for this force of nature and stay with him despite grave misgivings about his public persona. And it is Sittenfeld's triumph that we do. Charlie is a puerile, self-absorbed innocent but not unkind. (Alice would never tolerate that.) He is an excellent father and a faithful husband; the pure pleasure of his company overwhelms Alice's need to punish herself for her lethal mistake. He is clever and insightful--his emotional intelligence beggars his intellect--and blithely uninformed...
Sittenfeld's audacious gamble is that she can make the reader understand why someone as civilized as Alice would fall for this force of nature and stay with him despite grave misgivings about his public persona. And it is Sittenfeld's triumph that we do. Charlie is a puerile, self-absorbed innocent but not unkind. (Alice would never tolerate that.) He is an excellent father and a faithful husband; the pure pleasure of his company overwhelms Alice's need to punish herself for her lethal mistake. He is clever and insightful - his emotional intelligence beggars his intellect - and blithely uninformed...
There is a widespread assumption that if Salter didn't create the persona that is the modern McCain, he certainly gave it an airbrushing in the books he wrote with the Senator. Salter disputes this. "McCain was a fully formed human being when I met him," Salter explains. "It's his story. It's not some story that I gave him." It is, however, a story Salter passionately defends, endlessly firing off e-mails from his BlackBerry and penning letters to the editors of major publications. But the two men aren't always of one mind. Salter objected strongly...
...Rove has also been busy refashioning his public persona. A regular commentator for Fox News and an occasional columnist for the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek, Rove is the undisputed chairman of the Republican commentariat, delivering what his friend and former Clinton administration lawyer Lanny Davis calls "balanced, intelligent and sometimes even-handed" analysis from his lofty media perches...