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...stars feel their patriotic mission is to fight for their right to partay; their sacred covenant is to amuse the rest of us with their radiant egotism. As any actor will tell you: "It's not that I'm criminally self-absorbed. I just pretend to be - for the little people out there in the dark." And if you were to say that having Oscar as usual is a bit like dancing in the ballroom of the Titanic, Hollywood would reply, "You give us a $2.2 billion worldwide gross and 11 Oscars, and we'll fox-trot till the cold...
...Lopez's success in the ratings and in therapy, memories of his youth are never far away. "I think of that little boy now," he says, "and I pretend he is with me when things are good and show him things are going to be all right." If that boy can keep reminding the man of when things weren't all right, George Lopez has a bright dark future. --Reported by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
...open to any plausible solution to the problems that we face,” Kirby said. “What we cannot do is pretend that there are no problems...
...course, was some variant of the homework machine. I don’t remember what kind of overwhelming assignments we were dealt in fourth grade that necessitated such an appliance, but I do recall my classmates’ creations—elaborate boxes wrapped in shiny tinfoil, dotted with pretend buttons and adorned with assorted levers. These Willy-Wonka-esque machines did your homework for you—or destroyed it all together. None of my friends, however, shared my slightly weird, slightly mundane peeve: failing to receive letters from my many pen pals with adequate frequency. My invention consisted...
...become more self-sufficient - even to embrace once-taboo methods like privatization and corporate sponsorship - and to recognize that commercial viability is as critical to survival as artistic merit. "Culture is business," says Werner Heinrichs, dean at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. "Nobody should pretend that these two things are not linked." That lesson is being learned at the Staatsoper on Unter den Linden in Berlin. The city of Berlin faces debts of more than €45 billion, so the opera house and other premier cultural venues are feeling the pinch. Like all German arts...