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...little Type A personality," a phrase Witherspoon borrowed to name her production company. She's a notorious spur to her films' writers; she helped turn Blonde into something resembling the female-empowerment comedy Private Benjamin. That intensity carries over to the set. Says Blonde co-producer Marc Platt: "Whether it was Take 2 or Take 7, she'd be focused as if there was no one else on the set--mouthing the words, in character, to make sure she had it just the way she wanted it. She had to consume the character...
Goalies Laura Field and Jennie Platt combined for eight saves in the Princeton...
...plumb her latest thoughts. George W. Bush and Al Gore have been spending so much time in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area of Florida that they are beginning to seem like neighbors. "In the past, if they came once, it was a momentous occasion," says Hillsborough County commissioner Jan Platt. "Now it's, 'Oh, here they are again.'" The presidential race is so close that every vote matters, but it's becoming clear that some votes matter more than others. "This election," says Bush strategist Karl Rove, "is going to be decided in the last precinct, in the last state...
...plumb her latest thoughts. George W. Bush and Al Gore have been spending so much time in the Tampa?St. Petersburg area of Florida that they are beginning to seem like neighbors. "In the past, if they came once, it was a momentous occasion," says Hillsborough County commissioner Jan Platt. "Now it's, 'Oh, here they are again.'" The presidential race is so close that every vote matters, but it's becoming clear that some votes matter more than others. "This election," says Bush strategist Karl Rove, "is going to be decided in the last precinct, in the last state...
Thus the session turned into a 45-minute mutual stroking session. "What's the difference between a columnist and a reporter?" asked Platt. "Ego!" His audience - mostly, of course, reporters rather than columnists - roared. Even when someone managed to raise the question of why Wolf cast Platt as a lead when, after all, the jowly actor is about as leading-man dashing as a smoked ham, it was in almost cringingly apologetic terms: "I mean, he, he doesn't look like a conventional TV star - he looks like he could...