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...Brash sees potential partners on the center-right, most naturally the Tory-style Act, led by the wisecracking Rodney Hide. But Act's nine list seats could be wiped out on present polling, victims of National's resurgence. To shore up its vote and become the third force in national politics that leader Winston Peters aspires to, New Zealand First is taking a "pox on both your houses" attitude: it will not be in a coalition with either of the major parties. Who can say where the mercurial Peters will take his troops after Sept. 17? A sure thing, however...
After watching hours of casting tapes for the pilot last year, House executive producer Bryan Singer refused to see any more British actors due to their imperfect American accents. "Luckily Bryan had no idea who Hugh was," says the show's creator David Shore, who played Laurie's audition tape, sent from a sandy, Namibian film shoot, for Singer. "Bryan said, 'That's what we want, a terrific American actor.'" Laurie could hardly be more British, having attended the University of Cambridge alongside cinema heavyweight Emma Thompson and preferring for the time being to keep his wife and three school...
...Singer said, 'You do realize this show is kind of about House?'" Now that House has been nominated for five Emmys and Laurie has appeared on the cover of TV Guide as TV'S SEXIEST MAN, the button has been put away. "Nobody expected the outpouring of estrogen," says Shore, "least of all Hugh...
...asked for almost $496 million, according to figures supplied by the office of Louisiana's Democratic Senator, Mary Landrieu. The Administration cut the requests back to $166.5 million. Congress eventually approved $249.5 million, but that was still half of what the Corps wanted. The Corps' other major effort to shore up New Orleans, the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project, was also underfunded: as of this spring, seven of its contracts were delayed because of lack of money, according to a May 23 Corps report...
Raised in the Chicago neighborhood of South Shore by his mother (his parents divorced when he was 3, and he spent summers with his father Ray, a former Black Panther who is now a Christian marriage counselor), West went to good schools, received art and music lessons and, when he was 10, spent a year in Nanjing, China, where his mother was a visiting professor. Like many suburban kids, he developed a passion for hip-hop that was only enhanced by his awareness that the genre often romanticized bad behavior. His mother did not exactly approve; when West went...