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Tony Blair emerges from a Range Rover next to the village hall in Highnam, just outside Gloucester near the Welsh border, and bounds up to a dozen locals there to greet him. His handshake is athletic: coat open, big reach, pivoting from the waist, legs spread apart. He works out in Downing Street two or three days a week and exudes vitality - no longer the boyish charm of his 1997 campaign, but still, in the words of a longtime aide, "surprisingly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed" in light of how things have been going lately. His party's six-point...
...press pass, but I get there early. Jack, my truant brother, doesn’t show, so I sit on the pavement outside the Ballroom (a tiny, tired converted roller rink) in North London with a kid from Peterborough. His red hair is shellac-ed, and he talks about Welsh rap. He’s wearing white shoes shaped like elongated diamonds. He smokes rollies...
Warren House is unknown to all but a small handful of Harvard students who’ve endeavored to do something crazy like learn a Celtic language (see the Welsh dictionary against the back wall: Volume III is M through Rhywyr). But that doesn’t mean the circa 1833 piece of architecture must remain obscure. Stroll right in, as FM did—just don’t try to use the antique toilet...
...When she got off her plane she was really tired, and she was great even though she wanted to pass out,” says Gaudiani, who manages the Man and Woman of the Year events. “She did the Welsh or British kiss on both cheeks...
...which cast members mercilessly tease the honoree. Ferrante and Gale Rosen, assisted by members of the cast, joshed Zeta-Jones for her less illustrious roles—in The Adventures of the Young Indiana Jones and her position as T-Mobile’s spokeswoman. They made her speak Welsh, sing alternate lyrics to one of the songs from Chicago, re-enact a scene from Entrapment, perform silly dance moves, and swordfight with former Pudding Producer Nicholas...