Word: rat
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...words great guy are often used to describe Gibson, except by Hunt, who says, "He's the greatest guy. He's a guy who on one hand has this freeze-dried rat in his trailer that he tortures people with - and then can talk about Shakespeare's language, about iambic pentameter. He's both those people." The question facing the $25 million man is this: Who exactly will he be in the coming decades? His image - the winking, wisecracking, pistol-packing hero-clown - is already showing signs of age. The '80s-style action movie he mastered is past its prime...
...hatched the idea of their doing a duet. In the tradition of My Way, the song features lyrics only a true softie like Wallace could carry off: "Imagination--/What a sensation!/For yours, I give you a standin' ovation." It's just a damn shame the Rat Pack has broken...
...wrench is thrown into the works when brother Alec pays a visit from Columbia school of journalism. Full of righteous indignation at his family's assimilation, he tells them to shape up or ship out. Astonishingly enough, the United States government has just made Harry an offer to rat out Alec's African National Congress friends in exchange for a cushy job in the Netherlands. Harry has a dilemma: he knows South Africa is tearing his family apart, but his only way out is to abuse Alec's trust...
Through the rumor mill, I hear that a group of girls accompanied him back to his suite at the Charles and eventually they all ended up at the Fly. Uh-huh, not only did Ben stoop to being a Grille rat, he also wanted to check out our final-club scene. Sigh. Didn't Ben Affleck used to be cool? This is so indicative of a larger problem...
Scratch a collector, and you find a pack rat who likes to play librarian. As a teenager Elton bought rock records extravagantly, then organized them with Prussian efficiency, filing them by record label and catalog number. With early stardom he loaded up on the usual blunder acquisitions of new-money collectors. (What was it exactly that baby boomers saw in Art Nouveau posters and Tiffany lamps?) Most of that he sold off some years ago in the mental and physical housecleaning that accompanied his decision to stop drinking. Then he went to lunch in France, somebody showed him some prints...