Word: secrets
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...stain of politics-as-usual ?- think Joan of Arc meets "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." The quintessential White Knight is the "Man on the White Horse," who quits a successful military career (or professional sports or show business, in less compelling versions) for politics. The White Knight?s secret is to always appear unlike "the rest of them," forced by patriotic duty to enter politics and save the nation from itself. Even functionaries who?ve served most of their adult lives in the political establishment are prone to reinvent themselves as folksy outsiders when candidacy calls. Think Liddy Dole...
...Just as the sins of the fathers aren?t visited on their sons, there?s no sound reason for assuming that the progeny of great leaders will make great leaders themselves. But the Inheritors benefit from a considerable nostalgia ?- maybe a secret longing for a monarchy? ?- which gives political brats an electoral advantage that goes well beyond name recognition. Consider the dynastic allure of surnames such as Kennedy, Bush and Gandhi. (Of course it helps when the candidate can be at once Inheritor and White Knight, a political neophyte with an epic last name, such as India's Sonia Gandhi...
...only played during the prestigious French festival but, opening in North America this past weekend, also pulled in $20 million on Friday alone. In comparison, 1997's Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery earned just $9.5 million in its entire first weekend. Still, the exploits of the silly secret agent eventually scored more than $100 million in the U.S., nearly half of that from video sales. Not bad, considering it cost only $18 million to make. Also not bad for a movie that began as an in-joke, Myers' personal tribute to the British goon shows his late father adored...
...does of wishy-washy arrangements of hymns and Celtic folk songs, with Andrew Lloyd Webber's easy-listening setting of Pie Jesu thrown in for bad measure. Sony Classical, which is devoting a steadily increasing share of its energies to such lowbrow crossover projects as Michael Bolton's My Secret Passion: The Arias and the Titanic sound track, is promoting the CD aggressively (Church is sharing space with Mariah Carey on some New York City record-store posters). To date, though, Voice of an Angel has yet to rise above No. 28 on the U.S. pop charts...
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