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Kevin Durant, the spindly, silky-smooth forward from the University of Texas, is making life miserable for the Portland Trail Blazers, who hold the first overall pick in tonight's NBA draft. Hoops history tells the Blazers to take the big man, Ohio State seven-footer Greg Oden, since dominant post-players like Bill Russell, Shaquille O'Neal and Tim Duncan collect the championship rings. But Durant, a 6-ft. 10-in. scoring machine who became the first freshman to ever win college player-of-the-year honors, has looked more impressive in pre-draft workouts. Durant sat down with...
...House term expired. Peter Brierley, waiting in Downing Street to witness Blair's departure, was sad to see him go too. Brierley's soldier son was killed in Iraq in 2003. "I wanted Blair to stay until we got him into court," said Brierley, cradling a picture of his smooth-faced...
...Roger is a man with a tough hide. (And, according to my mother, a smooth one. She once stroked his face and said, "You have beautiful skin.") He's one of the few critics who can take it more than he can dish it out, as I know firsthand. In 1990, for Film Comment, I wrote a piece called "All Thumbs," about what I saw as the devolution of film criticism, and cited the Siskel-Ebert TV show (not their other writing) as an example of movie reviewing being reduced to opinion. In the next issue, Roger responded to these...
...alcohol. But when Bruce Willis sings about golden wine coolers, you have to get your drink on. I showed up at parties with Seagram's wine coolers, and people would say, 'What are you, crazy? We have a keg. We have vodka.' But no. I'm Bruce Willis smooth...
...interview early, clearly disgusted by my occupation--but it's a likeable weird. When I leave, he does perhaps the strangest alpha-male thing of all, something I've never heard an interviewee do. He nods approvingly and says, "Good job." You can't be Willis-smooth unless you play the game...