Word: ruthlessness
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...think theater producers aren't paying attention. At least half a dozen musicals based on feature films are in the works, and chances are they'll now be on a faster track to Broadway. Among them: Sweet Smell of Success, from the Burt Lancaster-Tony Curtis classic about a ruthless gossip columnist; Thoroughly Modern Millie, above, a reworking of the 1967 film starring Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore; and musical versions of Summer of '42, That Thing You Do and John Waters' Hairspray...
...bureaucratic brawler. Indeed, one of the more widely reprinted legends surrounding the 69-year-old Defense Secretary, who served in the same post under President Ford, alleges that Henry Kissinger once told Republican insiders that of all the despots he'd had to deal with, none was more ruthless than Donald Rumsfeld...
...coherent strategy, ideology, policy or vision." This is not a political biography. And anyone who turns to it thinking they will see a picture of how Indian politics works will find it lacking. But as a picture of one woman, driven by her perception of duty, a woman courageous, ruthless and paranoiac, it is a compelling read...
...Colby said something interesting a few weeks back - "My only loyalty is to Tina." Which could mean one of three things: One, that sweet-yet-ruthless Tina, using her nursing skills, has successfully Freuded her way into the Vexin' Texan's mama's-boy heart, and the two have agreed to face the jury together and let the first and second prizes fall where they may (heck, Colby's already got a car). Two, that Colby somehow doesn't realize that whoever can get into the Final Two popular vote-off opposite Keith is a shoo-in for the grand...
...Sayonara (with Marlon Brando as a G.I. who loves a Japanese entertainer) and The Teahouse of the August Moon (this time with Brando as a Japanese!) - were mostly fond and sentimental. It was not until the country emerged as an economic Godzilla that Hollywood updated the old ogres with ruthless businessmen, in the film of Michael Crichton's novel Rising Sun - and then changed the identity from Japanese to American, to stifle Japanese protests. This summer's big item is Pearl Harbor, and we'll bet the "enemy" is portrayed gingerly. Unlike World War II films, this epic hopes...