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...person burst into song in front of me today. That's supposed to be the problem with movie musicals as far as contemporary audiences go. According to conventional Hollywood wisdom, today's moviegoers, especially the ones born P.G. (post-Grease, or after 1978) are turned off by the implausibility of spontaneous song and dance numbers. But I don't buy it. Not one person got a spider bite and turned into a superhero in front of me today, either, and yet record numbers of folks of all ages happily suspended disbelief for Spider...
...Phony or For Real? Re Joe Klein's piece on the person he called the "no baloney candidate" [May 7]: We need someone like John Edwards as President of the U.S. He will say what he means and mean what he says. Most candidates beat around the bush on controversial topics like health care. Does the nation want more surprises like our current Administration's zany ideas? I don't. Bush has been making the world more unstable with his decisions. Daniel Swain, Plymouth, North Carolina...
...That's the person Gore would risk losing if he re-entered politics. "He learned something from his very difficult time after 2000," says Schmidt. "I think he got more comfortable with who he is. He had to go through a difficult personal transformation in order to achieve greatness. That sets him up for the next chapter. I have no idea what he'll do. My advice is to do whatever he's most passionate about. Because that is working...
...journey. There are no consultants fussing at him, telling him how to be himself. "There's no question I'm freed up," he says. "I don't want to suggest that it's impossible to be free and authentic within the political process, but it's obviously harder. Another person might be better at it than I was. And it's also true that the process is changing and that it may become freer in time. Obama is rising because he is talking about politics in a way that feels fresh to people ... But anyway, I came through...
...Which side of that equation will count more over time? "Foreign affairs," Reynie states with a laugh. "The economy may be what the average French person will complain about on any given day, but defending the grandeur of France is always what he will base a President's record on in the long...