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...idea itself. Although Perle and Adelman and others may think they are dissing the Bush Administration when they talk about its incompetence in failing to turn sand into ice cream, they are also displaying the Bush Administration's key vice, which is assuming that things are how you wish them to be and not how they...
...Down!, starring another of Spain's cinema exports indebted to the director, Antonio Banderas. From then on, "my main motivation to become an actress was to work with Pedro," Cruz says. "I was kind of obsessed about it." In 1997, at 22, she got her wish, playing a prostitute loudly giving birth on a Madrid city bus in Live Flesh. Then the director, whose films are populated by heroic transvestites and lovable hookers, cast her in another memorable maternity part in All About My Mother, in 1999, this time as a pregnant, HIV-positive...
...intuition that the way to work with Pedro is to become a piece of clay," says Cruz. "With somebody like him, you cannot go in with doubts because it would be the most stupid behavior. I wish I would have that feeling every movie I do, but it's not that way." Cruz's trust seems daughterly, but, insists the director, who is 57, with a shock of gray hair, "I don't like when she looks at me like a paternal figure. I behave with her like if I were Orlando Bloom, a young, attractive man actor that...
...Bush Administration's ritual sacrifice to atone for Iraq comes as no surprise. It had been obvious for months now that the debacle would be blamed on Rumsfeld. And the blame-Rumsfeld narrative has a singular attraction for all those who supported the Iraq war and now wish to evade their own culpability in the catastrophe it inevitably became...
...unpopularity, and at least once in the next week you will hear Bush supporters remind you that "Bush's name wasn't on the ballot." Virginia, where Senator George Allen has finally conceded the loss of his seat to Jim Webb, may be the one state where they wish it had been...