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...director's prickliness disappears as he darts gleefully from room to room, interrupting workers to show off a spinning zoetrope, a vintage movie projector, a handcrafted model airplane. Stepping around a staffer who is painting a trompe l'oeil on a wall, he shows off his proudest creation?his fantasy studio. Tomes on anatomy and history crowd the shelves, a pterodactyl hovers overhead, desks spill over with tubes of paint, old postcards, a jar of pencil stubs. Copies of his sketches are tacked, unframed, all over the walls. Nothing is roped off. "I wanted to show the roots of inspiration...
...greatly concerned for her welfare and that of her family. She's a bright and talented woman and I will do everything in my power to help find her, while at the same time working with my family to make amends. This is not the proudest moment of my political career or personal life, but the important thing here is finding Chandra Levy." End of story...
...course, Jesse may surprise everyone. He loves to defy conventional wisdom. "Senator No," as he's nicknamed in Washington, is proudest of the nominations he's single handedly held up and the votes he's cast as the chamber's lone conservative dissenter. His current campaign finances aren't an accurate predictor of his political future; if Helms seeks a sixth term, the cash will pour in from devoted conservatives all over the country faster than you can say "North Carolina barbecue." Helms could announce he's running again just to spite Ted Kennedy, The New York Times...
...film the sundering trauma of American soldiers in Southeast Asia. Like any movie, it can be assembled into any shape, any length, that its powerful auteur deems suitable. So last year Coppola went back into the jungle of his Vietnam vision to reimagine one of the worst and proudest experiences of his career...
America, the proudest nation in the 1950s, later slouched into self-doubt, and Lemmon boldly charted that course onscreen. He demonstrated, for an audience not always eager to hear it, the poignant truth of Joe E. Brown's flippant observation to Lemmon at the end of Some Like It Hot: "Nobody's perfect." Jack Lemmon wasn't either, but he had one great American trait--bravery--that served him well as deft comedian and slapstick tragedian, cunning artist and surpassing entertainer...