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...movie, you'll first want to take that call from Warren Beatty. That's what Edward Norton did a while back: had an out-of-the-blue phone session with the future winner of the Irving G. Thalberg Award. Recalling the chat, Norton deftly mimics the seductive Beatty stammer: "He said, 'I've been watching the stuff you're doing, and I think you're a lot like me. You're gonna be frustrated like I was, 'cause you're gonna want to do it yourself. I wanted to tell you, don't wait. 'Cause I waited too long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Norton Exposure | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...since mid-1998, the company has grown from one online store to more than a dozen, and from 1,100 to more than 5,000 love-it-or-leave-it, multitasking nomads. Ask the average Amazon employee for his or her business card. He will stammer and pat his pockets, explaining that, well, his number changed; she has a new job title; their group just moved; the new cards aren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruising Inside Amazon | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Does your dad [William F. Buckley Jr.] stammer like that at home, or is it totally affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chris Buckley | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...stammer, the gestures, he practices those in the greenroom before going on TV every time. A media adviser told him when he was very young that he needed more affectation. He's been very diligent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chris Buckley | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...friends didn't know why I read both EW and The New York Review because I hadn't told them. I had taken their questions as indications to blush and stammer instead of to share what is, in a sense, a part of my personality. I had failed to learn the first lesson of Harvard diversity: There can be no understanding if the thing to be understood is never mentioned...

Author: By Dehn W. Gilmore, | Title: Editorial Notebook | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

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