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...perfect combination of James Dean and the boy next door, Paul Rudd graciously greeted me with a big handshake and a warm smile just before curtain call on New Year's Eve. At the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway, Rudd was starring in The Last Night of Ballyhoo, a touching Alfred Uhry drama that gracefully blends stirring romance, witty one-liners and meaningful reflection in the story of a Southern family grappling with their American-Jewish identity in the 1930s. Personable and startlingly down to earth, Rudd is the rare exception in ego-dominated Hollywood...
...confident to be convincing, Michael Moore's humor is based on the same presumptuous cameraderie that Rush Limbaugh uses at the other end of the political spectrum. Laid off Payday workers (the gods of irony smile on Moore) cantankerously predict disappearing markets, and Moore smiles and nods, marching off to recite such stellar observations to the front desks of corporate America, never stopping to introduce the complexities of these problems to his audience. There is no mention of inflation or of developing labor markets, except from the equally prejudiced mouths of corporate representatives. When talking to PR workers, Moore feigns...
...discussing which politicians were telling the truth. Truth was what she was most open-minded about. My friend the truth liver, truth teller and truth maker is gone. But not really. We often discussed life after life. I'm sure I'll be hearing from her. And I'll smile through my tears because she won't find it surprising...
...view of the foreign-policy elites in the '60s, '70s and '80s, but Reagan had an old-fashioned sense that Americans could do any good thing if God blessed the effort. Removing expansionary communism from the world stage was a right and good thing, and why would God not smile upon...
...deluded by the adulation of the world. Asked to comment on the BBC's unflattering verdict on his performance as a leader, Mandela said with a smile, "It helps to make you human...