Word: thompson
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...hunt for a Melbourne serial killer. It's a tough call, but Cowell somehow turns this fuzzy antihero into someone strangely likeable and oddly iconic. An improvised scene where he practices cricket strokes in front of a mirror wearing just underpants, joint in hand, seems as Australian as Jack Thompson wielding sheep-shearing scissors in Sunday Too Far Away...
...former Senator Fred Thompson, a serious potential challenger, is in a way the most manifestly Reaganite of all. In the two weeks since the Thompson boomlet began, many times I've heard conservative friends consider Thompson's merits (which are real) and then - chuckling, but almost dispositively - add, "The last time we nominated an actor, it didn't turn out badly...
...Obama vs. Thompson That is why Barack Obama could well defeat Hillary Clinton for the nomination. It would be the victory Bobby Kennedy was denied by an assassin's bullet. Obama is, like Kennedy, a charismatic freshman Senator, running before his time but - supporters think - uniquely suited to the time. Obama follows Kennedy in being a bold liberal and a skeptic of simple ideological stances, a gifted politician and an antipolitician, a man familiar with the halls of power yet a charismatic critic of them...
...Kennedy in New York City answering questions from students in London. (It was generally agreed that Reagan bested Kennedy, who asked afterward, "Who the f___ got me into this?") Who would not have relished a repeat confrontation between the conservative champion and the liberal prophet? Perhaps in October, when Thompson and Obama stand across the stage from each other, the hopes and dreams of both parties riding on their shoulders, we'll come close...
...they admit to not immediately buying into a system that demands total team discipline. "When you're coming from high school and you're the superstar of your team, you can sometimes ask, ?Why are we doing this?'" says Green. "But we soon realized that nobody could guard us." Thompson never considered scrapping the Princeton O. "You are who you are," he says. "And you do what you know." And that is the code for winning...