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...made our passage into the global information age an era of great American renewal." He thanked us for all the things he normally takes full credit for. But the American people mostly watched, and rooted for either the man or his enemies. Clinton turned politics into a the best soap opera in town, and when George W. Bush is done restoring all the honor and dignity the Oval Office has arguably lost these past two terms, the American people may well have nodded off. Clinton is one tough act to follow...
...language networks. Thalía's fans as a whole have been politely avoiding the somewhat Faustian aspect of her romantic merger with Mottola, but the tabloids, both in English and Spanish, haven't been quite so kind. She's been portrayed in English publications as a young Latin soap star positioning herself to be "Mariah II," while Spanish publications have printed as many pictures as they could obtain of her publicly nuzzling her older beau - elaborating how much money and influence Mottola has. The conclusions were implicit: Mottola chose another gorgeous younger woman, but this time he picked...
...fantasy. Her response to the question of whether she, privately, is more like her "Marias" or the flashily dressed, seductive chanteuse, is a carefully measured one: "The public can choose how they want to see me. Some like the image of a tender girl, the poor girl of the soap operas. Others see me [as] more aggressive, strong, the way, I am sometimes on stage... I let my fans decide...
...CRITICS LOVE IT This is elevated soap opera filmed with patience and subtlety. A Taipei family tiptoes individually and together to the precipice of crisis: a father whose business needs a new-media fix from a Japanese swami (the marvelous Issey Ogata), a mother who seeks emotional solace in a Buddhist retreat, plus other hearts breaking from romantic despair or breaking down from old age. Opening with a wedding fracas and closing with a funeral, Yi Yi puts the trials of three generations delicately on view...
...Whittle a shiv out of lye soap b) Wear his own dark clothes instead of the prison's orange ones c) Churn coke with Robert Downey...