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...will also be a terrific spokesman for her cause, but that is a double-edged sword--and this is how Hillary Clinton will also be running, metaphorically, against her husband. She will never have his performance skills, an especially daunting deficit because the presidency is the office where the ability to lead and inspire is part of the job description. No one doubts Hillary Clinton's substance; even potential Republican opponents like Newt Gingrich and John McCain have praised her ability to understand tough issues and find the best answers. But if being smart about policy were the most important...
...Sword of Honour...
...that nosy French girl from “Dirty Pretty Things” is the last living heir of Jesus Christ. Whew, that was a close one. 2. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest…Because Johnny Depp, even while wearing eye shadow and sword fighting on a water wheel, is H-O-T. Plus Orlando almost dies. Too bad, so close…but it looks like he’ll still be in the third one. 3. Superman Returns…Because Kate Bosworth has two different colored eyes—which...
...difficult in the way it was for Joan Rivers or Phyllis Diller. Being a woman in a very male-dominated business absolutely formed the stage personality those two women had. I don't think it did with me. It is kind of a double-edged sword. There were times - the first time I did the show at the Connection - if I had to wait around to be included in a way that wasn't gender-biased onstage, I never would have made it. But it does have a sort of Special Olympics feel...
...Flash forward to Hannibal at 13 in France. He lives in the chateau of his uncle Robert and Robert's Japanese wife, Lady Murasaki. They are sweet to the boy, who is intoxicated by Lady M's silks and fragrances, and her tutorial interest in him, and her impressive sword collection. (He always loved cutlery.) After she is grossly insulted by the boorish local butcher, chivalrous Hannibal takes one of those swords and does the butcher's work on him: slashes and slices the pig up, then eviscerates and beheads him, leaving the carcass in the sun and taking...