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...missed opportunity: "For despite the recent box-office disappointment, Sam Spiegel believed that Marlon would be an ideal Lawrence of Arabia, made his an offer, and sent him Robert Bolt's vivid scenario. To Peter O'Toole's undying gratitude, Marlon responded: 'I'll be damned if I'll spend two years of my life out in the desert on some f-----g camel...
...Brando at a White House dinner with President John F. Kennedy: "As Marlon attacked the pasta, Kennedy challenged him: 'Marlon, have you gained weight? Looks like you've put on a few.''Nary an ounce.''Kennedy grinned. "Then the CIA sent up some wrong information.'Marlon bet the president that JFK weighed more than he did. A bathroom scale was brought into the room. Brando checked in at 187 pounds. Kennedy was eleven pounds lighter.'Get some food into this man,' Marlon told the other guests. 'You can't lead the country at a hundred seventy...
...indeed, it was news of the recession that sent stock traders into a frenzy of buying on Friday, there may be more bullish boosts to come in the weeks and months ahead. A new forecast by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) predicts a 0.3% decline of its members' economies next year. That, the OECD forecasts, will be led by a 1% decline in growth in the U.S., a 0.5% contraction in Europe, and 0.1% downturn in Japan. Evidence to back that projection came with Friday's announcement that economic growth across the euro-zone decreased...
...there are those who worry that Emanuel's hard-edged style - he's famously profane and once sent an enemy a dead fish - will stifle dissent and debate in a White House that, Jarrett says, Obama wants to function using a "team-of-rivals approach, with differences of opinion." Comparing Emanuel with Richard Nixon's ruthless chief of staff, New York University government expert Paul Light predicts, "He's going to make Bob Haldeman look like a cupcake...
...labor leader. Six-and-a-half years for five Buddhist monks. Two years for a poet. In the space of just three days this week, more than 30 Burmese were sentenced to prison or hard labor by the country's ruling junta, a chilling legal onslaught that sent a clear message to other potential dissidents: speak out, and get used to life in a prison cell...