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Sitting in his office near Hayden Lake, Idaho, the leader of the Aryan Nations has the grim demeanor of a man under siege. Richard Butler growls that "Jews run the government" and that "Jewish conspirators" are intent on destroying him. A portrait of Butler's hero, Adolf Hitler, hangs on the wall, and white-robed figurines of Ku Klux Klansmen decorate a shelf. He fiddles with a booklet of Nazi war art and clicks his teeth as he talks. At 82, he has failed in his goal of founding a whites-only homeland, and now he faces the prospect...
...greatest strength of Drowning Ruth is not its tension-building plot but rather its careful portrait of people who must get on with the daily business of living no matter how mystified they are by unanswered questions. Carl realizes that he has a farm to run and a daughter to raise. When Amanda, who has stayed on to become Ruth's surrogate mother, suffers a nervous breakdown and goes to a sanitarium for a year, he nearly loses control of his increasingly wild child. Only when Amanda returns does Ruth settle down and some semblance of normal family life begin...
...Suit, and as the mousy banker who nearly pulls off the legendary Eiffel Tower paperweight caper in The Lavender Hill Mob. It saw him locate the suicidal pride of the colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai. The camera may even have captured an on-the-fly self-portrait when the older Guinness sat, purring and omniscient, for the role of George Smiley in the two '80s mini-series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People. Perhaps, in the sum of these men, we caught a profile of the composite Guinness character: he defined what it meant...
While Hillary's childhood is usually described as solidly middle class, Oppenheimer offers a grim portrait. Hugh Rodham may have driven a Cadillac and owned a home in a white-bread Chicago suburb, he writes, but he was a cheapskate who refused to take care of the place, and his drapery business was a one-man shop with walls stained brown from chewing-tobacco juice. Hillary has her brother Tony to thank for many of these details, since Tony told Oppenheimer about a cousin, Oscar Dowdy, who became the source for them. Dowdy also says that Hillary's mother...
...good mood at this, his last G-8, and often could be seen joking and laughing with his colleagues, with some of whom, like Britain's Tony Blair, France's Jacques Chirac and Germany's Gerhard Schroeder, he's developed close relations over the years. During the traditional "family portrait" of the group, Clinton joked, "This is my last photo, so be serious, do this right." Blair said all the leaders would "miss him greatly," and in an apparent allusion to the President's scandal and impeachment woes, spoke of "our real admiration for his strength and his leadership over...