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Hyde was on such a lucky streak. So this is where we tell you how disillusioned she was by the moviemaking process. It's true that Reuben, the black one-eyed Vietnam vet in the book, became the white burn victim Eugene in the movie (first choice Denzel Washington was busy); that scriptwriter Leslie Dixon (Mrs. Doubtfire, The Thomas Crown Affair) fiddled with characters; that Leder moved the setting from Atascadero, Calif., to Las Vegas. ("I thought the land of lost hopes and lost dreams was the place for this movie," she says.) But Hyde shrugs off the changes...
...Clintonian Mideast peacemaking continue to taste bitter, as oil continues its dramatic reappearance on the nation's political and economic stage, Bush's increasingly articulate calls for a manlier U.S. policy - "humble" abroad and self-sufficient at home - may fall favorably on some undecided ears. And having Gulf War vet Dick Cheney around doesn't hurt...
...ready with a penknife when she couldn't open Cheney's gift to her, a CD by Peter Gabriel featuring the song "Big Time," a nicely self-deprecating gesture. This gave his wife, temperamentally a dead ringer for Dr. Laura, a chance to joke that she would have to vet the lyrics. Lynne Cheney, a former culture czar and her husband's primary handler, has been more voluble during the campaign than her husband, especially in denouncing Hollywood. Like the independent counsel putting all the dirty stuff into the Starr Report to assure its widest possible dissemination, Cheney actually recites...
JAMES PIERCE 1922-93 An Army and Navy vet of WWII, he followed his father into publishing, consulting on several sports magazines
Once Cheney was Bush's choice, there was no one to vet the vetter. Even if there had been, the bond had grown so strong Bush would not have wanted to see that Cheney's record lacks the compassion Bush spent a year trying to cement to the word conservative. Like the mild-mannered, nice guy he is, Cheney smiled when he voted against calling for Nelson Mandela's release from prison and in favor of cop-killer bullets, against $1 billion for Head Start but for a $870 billion tax cut. Until his record was parsed this week...