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...Winners PAUL McCARTNEY Sir Silly Lovesong is Britain's first pop billionaire. Just in time: Ringo needs an advance on royalties for his CD, Remember Me? STEPHEN HAWKING Physicist is serenaded by Marilyn Monroe look-alike at 60th birthday bash. Apologetic organizers say it was Princess Leia's night off LENI RIEFENSTAHL Creator of Nazi propaganda flick Triumph of the Will plans first release in 45 years. They just don't make totalitarians like they used to Losers ANNE ROBINSON Named "fashion's Weakest Link" by critic Mr. Blackwell and likened to "Harry Potter in drag." That's one brave...
...though you're being persecuted. "Have you no decency?" might be a bit much, and "high-tech lynching" has already been taken. So try something more appropriate to the Age of Dubya. "Senator, I want to end the season of cynicism in Washington. And frankly, sir, what I did wrong as a young man is, sir, part of the old politics. I'm a good person, got a good heart...
...William Allen White describes the Senate of the same era as "plutocratic feudalism." The description holds. Who could resist Missouri's Thomas Hart Benton, who, on the day a colleague in the Senate accused him of being quarrelsome, replied: "Mr. President, sir... I never quarrel, sir. But sometimes I fight, sir, and whenever I fight, sir, a funeral follows, sir...
...fiercest loyalists. In politics, it is generally perceived to be disloyal if you disagree with the senator or governor. In terms of your continued employment, it is usually better to be loyal and wrong than correct and "disloyal." For most politicians, the right reply to any suggestion is "Brilliant, sir...
More than merely "the man of a thousand faces," a designation first bestowed when he played eight characters, including a woman, in the 1949 comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, Sir Alec was the living embodiment of his many roles. A literate memoirist and self-effacing gentleman, he represented the quintessence of the British acting tradition...