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...President Bush, his hip hurting a bit and stomach churning more than normal (old-time ulcer knocking on the wall?), is in Philadelphia's elegant Rittenhouse Hotel, humor and asperity bubbling, TV clicker in hand, scolding the blaring monster screen on which friends and foes from the days of power are babbling about him and W. And while watching TV, he is riffling through magazines, offering his own irreverent editing: "That's crazy...Good pictures...Hey, they got that right for a change...
...carrying tissues. When the girls teared up at the convention, they were inexperienced and empty-handed. She dispensed the Kleenex. And now and then she will fire off an e-mail to W. "Always positive, always hopeful," she says. A while back she thought he looked nervous on the screen, and not wishing to make a direct suggestion to relax, she whispered it to one of his aides. Within a few hours the phone rang. It was her son twitting her for being on his case. Leaks everywhere...
...factor is the rising cost of gasoline. "All of a sudden people are saying, 'Oh, my gosh, what a horrible price to fill up my tank!'" says Senator Richard Bryan, a Nevada Democrat who is pushing for tougher gas-mileage rules. "Fuel economy has crept back onto the radar screen...
...Cider House Rules, bucked the trend last week by landing the part of Spiderman in the upcoming Sam Raimi-directed movie, beating out the Kilmeresque Freddie Prinze Jr. Though he hasn't started working out yet ("Hey, I just got this thing last Friday"), Maguire aced a crime-fighting screen test in bulge-revealing spandex, and he's already endured a fitting for Spiderman's skintight suit. "They put some kinda grease on my body and then layer after layer of this...stuff. When it hardens, they take it off, and it's a little bit painful 'cause I have...
...with nurturing his early career in the '30s, and he played support in all the usual Shakespeare - Osric and the third player in "Hamlet," Aumerle in "Richard II" and Lorenzo in "The Merchant of Venice." The leads, like the two failed stabs at "Hamlet," nudged him further onto the screen - to pay the bills, Guinness always said - and it was in the movies that he became beloved...