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...believed was ever more likely. "The most important thing about John Kennedy," his biographer Richard Reeves says, "is that he thought he was going to die young, and he could not wait his turn." Behind J.F.K.'s Eros--the skirt chasing, the virile New Frontier rhetoric, the pledge to shoot a big phallic rocket at the moon by decade's end--was Thanatos...
...that the legitimate anxiety over her musical staying power (will anyone still buy Britney records now that she's outgrown the plaid skirts and kneesocks?). And throw in all the other stresses and strains of being the world's most scrutinized 21-year-old pop star - the grueling video shoots, the countless interviews, the endless grind of disrobing for magazine covers, not to mention the hurtful backlash from conservative Britney-haters like Kendel Ehrlich, the Governor of Maryland's wife, who announced her desire to "shoot" Spears (while speaking at a domestic- violence conference, of all places...
...awkward self-examination of personal sexuality that many 21-year-old girls go through as they cross the threshold into womanhood. Except in Spears' case, of course, she's crossing it while the press snaps thousands of increasingly explicit pictures. "I'm really kind of over these magazine shoots," she says. "Not that I regret anything I've done, but I'm tired of the reaction they get." That Esquire shoot, it turns out, was a nightmare. (She claims the magazine gave her photo approval and then ran pictures without her blessing - something Esquire denies.) Even worse were those "retarded...
...merely a bug. But it's not hard to imagine a relapse - if not another flu, then some other costly public hiccup - as Spears ticks off some of what's on her to-do list now that she's back on her feet: resume hyping In the Zone; shoot another video; brainstorm with her "creative people" for the full-fledged performance tour she plans to kick off next March (she's organizing a group trip to Vegas for "inspiration"); work on her next album ("I'm already writing songs"); and, if she can squeeze it in, start her own record...
...ability to combine these roles may have developed at Harvard, where Zwick, a literature concentrator, took exhausting trips to the Carpenter Center to shoot and cut his own 16mm film. Yet his experience at Harvard is as contradictory as the societies he portrays in his films...