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...perfect both portraits are. Reid's story is Twainian, a western desert tall tale, and his background is as brutal and hardscrabble as Jackson's. "I guess it's no secret that both my parents drank heavily," he finally says. "I didn't learn my family values in Searchlight," he adds, referring to the tiny Nevada mining town where his father committed suicide and his mother washed laundry for the local brothels...
...arcane rules that require a 60-vote majority to stop a filibuster and get almost anything done. As it happens, the filibuster is a tactic Reid quite enjoys, since it gives him the opportunity to stall proceedings by reading aloud long passages from the book he wrote about Searchlight...
...hard-drinking gold miner who eventually shot and killed himself, Reid grew up in the town of Searchlight, 54 miles south of Las Vegas, in a tiny wood shack with a tin roof. He boarded with a family to attend high school in Henderson, 40 miles away, and he later went to college with money chipped in by Henderson townsfolk. Once an amateur boxer, he worked nights as a Capitol Hill police officer to pay for law school at George Washington University. As chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission from 1977 to 1981, Reid, a devout Mormon, battled organized crime...
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...latest stunt in Hollywood marketing. DVDs often include bonus endings and other add-ons. And last year Fox Searchlight, Napoleon's U.S. distributor, extended the box-office life of its horror film 28 Days Later by adding an alternate ending (shot earlier but discarded) weeks after the film opened. But in Napoleon's case, the company actually flew the cast and crew back to Idaho and shot the epilogue after the movie opened. "We thought, Why not borrow something from the DVD playbook?" says Nancy Utley, Searchlight's president for marketing...