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...compromise. Do your work, and if what you're giving is not what they want, you have to be prepared to walk away." Or get canned. Depp came perilously close to being fired from Pirates of the Caribbean when his melding of Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew freaked out a few senior Disney executives. "It has actually happened a number of times," Depp says. "At the end of the first take on the first day they say 'Cut,' and then ... silence. I mean silence that's deafening. And you're constantly waiting for the knock on the door...
...primaries had not been divisive. Both Kerry and Edwards have done a good job so far of not letting things get personal, and Democrats are so united in their opposition to all things Bush it's doubtful anything could divide the party right now. In fact, the latest Pew Research Center poll, from Feb. 11-16, shows 45 percent of Americans now have a positive view of the Democratic field, compared to 31 percent in January. This battle is giving valuable attention to the Democrats after four years of looking feckless...
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told lawmakers on the Hill that those weapons might still be found; CIA chief George Tenet defended his intelligence by suggesting there's no such thing as perfection in his business; and the apostate Colin Powell was back in his pew after suggesting he might have some doubts about how we got here. The message from all sides was essentially this: We weren't wrong, and if we were, no one can prove it. Bush himself chose to walk into the lion's den, sitting down with Tim Russert on NBC's Meet the Press...
...political appetite for a candidate who serves up hard choices. The polls don't seem to give him or his competitors much incentive to do otherwise: fully 72% of Democratic voters say the country should go into debt to spend more on social programs, according to the Pew Research Center, a 20-point increase since 1997, when budget balancing was in high fashion...
...frame forming a question mark, his gut preceding his chest by a beat or two. His hands were ever aflutter, shaking off invisible water (or sewage), conducting an imaginary silly symphony. While Ralph was the choleric loser, Ed was the lucky buffoon. Like the Looney Tunes character Pepe Le Pew (another bon vivant blithely ignorant of the way the world saw and smelled him), Norton exuded a sweet assurance that life would treat him as he treated life: with an easy shrug and an eager guffaw. That's how an acute farceur humanized a sewer rat for audiences...