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...softly: "Kenny, Kenny." I said, "What are you doing?" He said, "I'm saying your name. Am I saying it right?" Michael was from Indiana, and the way he said my name wasn't quite like anyone else. I guess the reason he questioned it was because I always smiled when he said it. I said, "Of course you're saying my name right. I love the way you say it. When you say my name, it makes me smile." And he said, "Good - when I say Kenny, it means 'friend.' " He was a special...
...that stretched from Pinky Lee and Kukla and Fran and Ollie in the early '50s to Pee-wee Herman in the '80s - and which is all but extinct today - Sales was the sweetest and goofiest performer. Outfitted in a sweater and bow tie, his elastic features sporting a nonstop smile, as if he were laughing at his last or next joke, Sales was a Mr. Rogers for kids who didn't watch PBS. Yet there was educational value to his work. Dipping deep into the stock of humor that had sustained stand-up comics from vaudeville and the Borscht Belt...
...remember being totally petrified,” Munoz admits. “And I remember running down the swim ramp and [my] eyes tearing up and wondering what I was doing. But as soon as I hit the water, there was a smile on my face...
...between pragmatism and ideology. Both candidates are excellent. Rubio, a former speaker of the Florida house, is young, handsome, enthusiastic and articulate in an unpackaged, spontaneous way. Crist has been, by almost every account, a popular and successful governor. He is more the traditional politician, smoother than glass. "I smile a lot," the governor told me, sitting on the patio of his official Tallahassee mansion. "I'm a happy warrior...
...This time, I suspect, his fate is tied to Obama's success: if the economy is looking better when the primary rolls around next August, Republicans may not be as riled up as they are now. "I'm not seeking the angry vote," the governor told me with a smile. "I'm seeking the optimists...