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...multi-aliased rapper, an actor and a fashion mogul, and his intense turn as an ambivalent striver in the TV-movie adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun airs Feb. 25 on abc. Sean Combs will now take your questions
...Rudd is a brazen striver. In the past, Australians deducted points from a candidate for grandiosity. In Rudd's case, there's a schoolboyish transparency about his cheerful ambition to be best in show. Times have also changed. Putting yourself out there is what people do in a networked society, and this has helped Rudd. In his first speech to Parliament on Remembrance Day 1998, the member for Griffith began: "Politics is about power." For those listening in the House that day, Rudd spoke about political philosophy, the role of the state, the great policy challenges facing the nation...
...with former leader Mark Latham, who made local politics interesting in 2004. All of Canberra's political pros have come a long way since then. In any case, it's worth noting that Team Rudd is several notches above the Crazy Lathams and Beazley's Bunch. Rudd, a lifelong striver, is more assured than his predecessors, rounded, grounded and disciplined. But the question remains: can his staff, parliamentary colleagues and party keep up with...
...then Gurukant is a simpler character than your average Corleone. The old Ratnam movies found ambiguous shades among the shadows of those gangsters and politicians. Gurukant is a hero of the people, a striver from the unprivileged classes, and gets automatic points for his vaulting ambition ("That's my problem, I can't hear the word 'no'"), for wanting to show the old-money crowd how new big money can be made. "Why should I work for that white man?" he says in Turkey. "I'll work for myself." It doesn't matter that he lacks the leisure skills...
Black Swan Green tells the story of 13-year-old Jason in 13 chapters, one for every month of 1982 (plus one for January 1983), and describes an archetypal striver, rendered lonely and vulnerable by his sensitivity and terrified of bullies, girls and his inability to say words beginning with s and n. His family is coming apart, he somehow senses, as is the country around him (it's the year of the Falklands War and Maggie Thatcher's unexpected revolution). One part of him leans toward knowingness, but the rest is mired in a child's supercharged universe...