Word: wagging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slightly fidgety, her hands nervously shuttling one Camel cigarette after another to her lips? The 29-year-old actress had been on Hollywood's fast track, landing roles opposite stars like Johnny Depp and Al Pacino (Donnie Brasco), Tommy Lee Jones (Volcano) and Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman (Wag the Dog). Then last year--just as she was tapped to share onscreen kisses with Ford in Disney's romantic comedy Six Days, Seven Nights--she met and fell in love with Ellen DeGeneres, TV's first openly gay leading actress. Overnight, the couple, showing up at premieres...
...next half an hour is quiet, and Officer Derosiers pulls into an MIT parking lot to give me a tour of the squad car. He shows me the wig-wag lights, which go back and forth, the take-downs, which are bright forward-facing lights, alley lights, which go to the side of the car, and the strobe lights...
...Vili. The two were caught in her car in the dead of night with wads of cash and Mary's passport. Outsiders thought they planned to race off to a country that would allow them to marry, but the boring truth was that they had gone to see Wag the Dog and get some food and beer. As romantic and manic as Mary can be, she never planned to flee with Vili. To where? And take him from his mother, the one person who has been sane and humane throughout all this...
...example of someone who was magnificent in the struggle for freedom but less so in more normal times, when freedom was won and the task was to consolidate a stable, law-abiding democracy. For all his presidential airs, he still retains something of the old Lech, the working-class wag and chancer that his friends remember from the early days. But no one can deny him his place in history...
...exemplary entertainment. Come expecting a dour jeremiad on man's corruptibility--or even a slice-of-lice drama like Mamet's American Buffalo or Glengarry Glen Ross--and you'll be pleasantly surprised. The villains in The Spanish Prisoner (like the war-games con men in Mamet's Wag the Dog script) dress well, speak softly and carry a silver stiletto. They kill for sport...