Word: weirdnesses
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...Hugh Laurie: "It seems weird to me ... Nobody offers you a free acceptance speech...
...framing of issues, timing the dramatic arc of the campaign and damage control. Clinton is the world's best focus group: he has an innate sense of what average folks think is important and how to explain complicated things in the most accessible way. He also understands the weird chronology of presidential politics, the patience needed to last through interminable house parties and candidate forums, the fierce compression of time that will take place a year from now when Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina spin through their elections in a matter of weeks. "But his greatest strength...
...planted a full-on mouth kiss on actress Mary Lynn Rajskub (a.k.a. tech geek Chloe), and actors and producers took softball questions as audience members cheered what Limbaugh called the show's "pro-America" stance. (Among the crowd were pundit Laura Ingraham and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.) The weird spectacle put a point on a raging question in pop culture: Is 24 just a TV show or right-wing propaganda? Or, to turn Jack Bauer's frequent refrain on him: Who are you working...
...Mein Fuhrer at a downtown cinema the day it opened. I laughed twice during the film, and felt a bit uneasy doing so. And I didn't learn much, for all the hoopla. I suppose I am not outraged that the film was made. But it did feel weird barking out the words mein fuhrer in Berlin, even at a cinema ticket window...
...have their girlfriends and then they have their relationship with their husband, whereas he's the whole bag of tricks for me. He's the first person I've been with that I've actually been able to discuss work with. I think there's an intimacy, almost this weird superstitious connection, that you have with your work, where you can't voice certain things in case you demystify it. So then to actually speak to someone with whom you have a great intimacy, it's very revealing. Almost too revealing. It's a very big confidence. His criticism...