Word: reed
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...toward the holiday hangover. What will partitioned Kosovo look like in a month or so, when the victims, the villains and the victors all walk the same bomb-pocked streets? Maybe like the postwar Vienna of "The Third Man" (1950). Written by Graham Greene, lensed by the great Carol Reed (the just-deceased Oliver's uncle), and peopled with a pitch-perfect cast of Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard and a ravishing, gut-wrenching Alida Valli as the bad guy's girlfriend, this is quite simply one of the five best movies ever made, no taste-accounting necessary...
...Amount of British actor Oliver Reed's bar tab the night he died...
...Number of ales, rums and whiskeys Reed drank that night...
DIED. OLIVER REED, 61, hard-drinking British actor; after falling ill in a bar; in Valetta, Malta. Best known for his early roles in Women in Love, Oliver! and The Three Musketeers, Reed cultivated with great vigor a bad-guy image offscreen, referring to himself as a "tawdry character who explodes now and again...
...true liberal has its counterpart in the true conservative. These fellows have not (unfortunately) gone so quietly into that good night. From Ralph Reed to Pat Buchanan, they're still out practicing their bigoted and backward politics. They still have followers and they still run for office every so often. But less and less are they explicitly shaping the Republican Party's political agenda. When (and if) Strom Thurmond dies, so too will die the old school Republican party. The future is for the George W. Bush Jrs. and Christie Todd Whitmans of America. They are the fiscal conservative, politically...