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...about hunted, holed-up men, he could hardly avoid the connection between iconography and autobiography, for his life is at least as notorious as his films. As a child, with his Jewish parents in concentration camps, he survived the Nazis by hiding and running. In Hollywood, his blond starlet wife Sharon Tate was slaughtered by Charles Manson's own Satanic gang. Then, after his great success with the knotty, despairing Chinatown (still his best film), there was his 1977 sexual encounter with a 13-year-old; when he thought he was sure to serve a long jail term, he fled...
...resembles no one so much as Ronald Reagan, especially when he flashes a grin as affable as it is concealing. There's also a Halliburton-type company, called Hatherton, that links the P.M. to George W. Bush. But Lang and Olivia Williams, in the role of his bright, prickly wife Ruth, are a good fit for Tony and Cherie Blair. Then again, they could be another political power couple, Bill and Hillary Clinton: the salesman and his less charismatic but brilliant wife. Is the woman betrayed by the man, or is she controlling him, or both? Could either...
...them when I started in the late '80s; now we operate on them all the time. Mine was now the job of explaining wrist fractures to my very intelligent friend Peter, a Ph.D. in biochemistry, who despite all his smarts, had one big question on his mind: does my wife really need an operation? (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
While his wife Elin Nordegren was a no-show - a situation that crisis professionals never think is optimal - he quoted her and went out of his way to defend her reputation, bristling at the suggestion that she might have hit him with a golf club. He owned up to all that he had done to her and others in the room. "He had all the key elements of an effective apology," says W. Timothy Coombs, Ph.D., a professor of crisis communication at Eastern Illinois University. "I think it is important he noted his future behavior was the true mark...
...Woods had the next best thing to a wife with him: a mom. The cameras caught Tida Woods looking down, barely able to watch her son during the unusually long apology, whether out of shame or compassion. "The ending hug with his mother may have been the most humanizing moment," says Kenneth Shropshire, a professor of sports marketing at Wharton business school. "It really did deliver that this is, apart from all the elements us gawkers are focused on, a family matter." (See a brief history of the Tiger Woods scandal...