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...entertainment for a while now. Flair certainly isn't going to help the situation. If Flair's going to run, how long will it be before Hulk Hogan and Sable join the fun? How long before Hollywood remembers the Reagan era and hauls out the B-movie actors? (Shannon Tweed for Mayor!) On the flip side, North Carolina and Minnesota would be the only states where the governors are easily accessible to citizens in the form of action figures...
...this Westin Hotel Convention Center, just east of San Jose, Calif., a revival meeting is in progress. Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, 50, struts across the stage wearing a gray tweed suit and preaching the gospel of the network to a packed, 8,000-strong congregation of the converted. We have made great strides, Chambers drawls in his West Virginian birch-beer-sweet voice, but we need to be ever vigilant, for around the corner, right outside this hall, lurks the enemy--Nortel, Lucent and start-up companies we've never heard of, jesters who would steal our cybercrown...
...Snapping his fingers, James shuffles over to FM from news. Small, dark and decked in tweed, this investigative reporter spends his free time reading French poetry and availing himself of other people's personal information. James likes to keep his eggs in many baskets; he'll fraternize with anyone from terrorists to Harvard suits to Kroks, but don t expect any personal revelations from this exec next year. He promises to make ed notes anonymous and as for Would You Rather, he'd rather just not play...
...craggy, dark-haired director has been through hours of interviews already, but doesn't look it. Relaxed and slouching in a tweed coat, he looks at first glance more like an English professor than one of the foremost (and quirkiest) Irish directors working today. The rigors of a promotional tour aren't new to Jordan--he's weathered the gonzo publicity machines surrounding his more high-profile efforts, including 1992's The Crying Game, for which he won a best original screenplay Oscar, and Interview with the Vampire, which came out as the worldwide Brad Pitt craze was fast approaching...
Gore's role was to sell a mysterious elixir to the crowd. Somerby recalls he bought a frayed tweed suit and several bottles of "elixir" in preparation...