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Same face, different race. The familiar, popular pitchman for STP, Pepsi and Goody's headache powders has thrown his trademark cowboy hat into the political ring--to pitch himself for North Carolina secretary of state. Ecstatic Republicans are hoping that Petty will whiz right into the job and help other G.O.P. candidates speed past Democrats into other top posts. Petty, who successfully underwent surgery for prostate cancer in 1995, is the founder of a conservative pac, a former Randolph County commissioner and a regular G.O.P. crowd pleaser. He intends to maintain his commercial plugs while running for the state office...
Then, in honor of her baseball-loving character in "Bull Durham," the officers handed her a bat and Burlinson prepared to pitch her the ball. The bat, little more than a long stick, prompted Sarandon to note: "This looks like Michelle Pfeiffer's whip...
Lugar made a special pitch for New Hampshire votes by criticizing the barrage of television ads aired by Dole and Forbes...
Savannah achieves perfect-pitch campiness while steering clear of the baroque absurdity in which Melrose has lately dabbled. There is little chance, for example, that anyone on Savannah will enter an insane asylum and emerge a psychoanalyst--which is not to say Savannah is lacking in comedy. This is a show, after all, in which actors and actresses are made to address each other as "you cheap piece of white trash" with as much sweaty disgust as they can muster...
Could the novel be a reconstruction limned by a writer who saw the campaign documentary The War Room eight times and read every published word on the campaign? I doubt it. There are scenes that are just too nuance filled to be rendered in such perfect-pitch fashion by even the best campaign reporters. A prime example is a minor strategy debate between the characters who represent Al From, the head of the Democratic Leadership Council, and Frank Greer, Clinton's first media adviser. I have known Greer for 20 years, and I can testify that Primary Colors captures...