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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...
...rabid Hoya fans affectionately call Thompson, struggled with his decision to take the Georgetown job in 2004. He loved his alma mater, and most members of the '04 Tigers, fresh off a league title, were returning. It wasn't certain that Georgetown could compete against the bulked-up budgets of the Big East. Even today Georgetown's hoop team fights the volleyball squad for practice time at the school's campus...
...even sweeter bit of irony that Thompson runs, as Ewing Jr. calls it, the "quote-unquote white-guy offense" at Georgetown, whose aggressive, all-black teams under John Jr. discomforted many white fans. Papa John Jr., a 6-ft. 10-in. intimidator, in turn scared his players. These days, he attends practices and isn't shy about sharing. "A father has a license to meddle any time he wants," John Jr. says in his booming voice, adding a broad smile. The son embraces the presence of "Pops" but says, "Like most kids, I'm pretty good at ignoring my parents...
...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...