Word: ralph
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...parts, walk-ons and outright rejections at audition. He may not have helped his cause with sufficient ego. "Only at 50," he admits, "did I fully realize I wanted to be an actor." At that point, Yes, Minister made a star of Hawthorne, who bears a striking resemblance to Ralph Richardson. In the past few years Hawthorne found roles that fully challenged him: as novelist-metaphysician C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands and as George III. The former brought him a 1991 Tony Award; the latter earned him, in the same year, London's Olivier Award. He is still deadpan-dismissive about...
Redemption earns even more glory among evangelicals than consistent faith and virtue. And for Ralph Reed, sudden self-reform has always come easily. A heavy smoker as an undergraduate at the University of Georgia in the early 1980s, he pitched his pack of Marlboro Lights out a car window one day and never bought another. Booze was also a problem, so he went instantly dry during the summer after graduation. Weeks later, sipping soda in a Washington saloon as some pals drank harder stuff, he was seized by a thirst for "deeper spiritual meaning" in his life. Reed chose...
...victory party that a pretty 16-year-old Helms volunteer introduced herself to Reed. Jo Anne Young thought he was about 19 and "really cute." It would be nearly two years before they had their first official date, on the occasion of her high school . graduation. By that time Ralph was taking a recess from politics, obtaining a Ph.D. at Emory University. "I had the feeling all along that I was going to marry him," Jo Anne says, "and even announced that to friends. The idea scared him to death." Two months ago, the Reeds celebrated their sixth anniversary, which...
...Mexico, thinks the key to Indian fever is neither politicized rockers nor savvy savers. "People drifted West, all the way to Los Angeles, but they found it was too kooky," he says. "What we have now is the backlash, people who want stability." After stability, he adds wryly, comes Ralph Lauren. "Now it's a look. The Southwest is here to stay...
...course, few people, except Ralph Nader, go to Washington hoping to change it. Many think that their pilgrimage will be brief. Often they stay and become fodder for the press or are spat out in this place where, as the late Vincent Foster put it, "ruining people's life is considered sport...