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Olivarez learned that intellect is not the most important trait on screen during her stint as soap opera intern. “What it comes down to is charisma because they don’t want someone who’s boring, no matter how smart they are,” she said...
Claim to fame: As creative director of her family-owned cosmetics business, she can convince a soap-and-water minimalist that $290 face cream is a reasonable--even a requisite--purchase...
...that way on TV, and Bush had to perform the cleansing ritual he likes least: a prime-time press conference, in the East Room. Asked by a TIME correspondent what he considered his biggest mistake and what he had learned from it, the President chased the wet bar of soap around the tub for a while and then conceded he had no answer. At a time when only 48% of Americans support his handling of the war, he has a fine line to walk: to make his case that he was right while showing he has learned from what went...
...friend of Leary's who serves as a consultant on the show, the bigoted ball busting is part of a firehouse culture in which guys constantly probe one another's weak spots, something TV's lionization of fire fighters tends to overlook. "Shows like Third Watch are corny, formulaic soap operas," Quinn says. The Rescue Me team is conscious of being more real, more unsparing, morewellcable. Looking over posters for the ad campaign backstage, Leary rejects one that has the main characters in uniform, lined up, gazing upward. "Too heroic," he says. "That looks like a CBS show...
...feeling, I decide to analyze my tears. My pragmatic, journalist side is upset and angered by the futility of some of these pilgrimages, particularly those of the parents who have brought mentally disabled children here. Holy water doesn't stop cancer, chemotherapy does; and a three-dollar bar of soap in the shape of the Virgin Mary won't do much in the way of healing birth defects. But my emotional, aesthetic side is completely struck by the wonder of the scene: by the music echoing from the giant underground basilica, by the way people's hands lovingly stroke...