Word: wizard
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...screen. Producer Peter Guber and screenwriter Michael Cristofer, who had earlier coarsened John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick, were the wrong gents to midwife Wolfe's book. So was De Palma, whose vision is all muscle, no finesse. Tom Hanks lacked the slick stature of Wall Street wizard Sherman McCoy (Wolfe wanted Chevy Chase). Melanie Griffith was no slinky Circe (De Palma wanted Uma Thurman), and Bruce Willis was hardly a desiccated Brit (John Cleese said no thanks). Finally, for reasons of ethnic balance, Morgan Freeman replaced Alan Arkin as a righteous judge, who in the book...
...think every time I see The Wizard of Oz--and I must have seen it 20 times in my life, starting when I was five--every time I see it I remember how I saw it when I was five and how I used to close my eyes when the witch melted. You don't forget that. I don't close my eyes now, so I think seeing it again shows you how your memory was distorted or how you misunderstood...
...week in which the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan may well become governor of Louisiana, it's refreshing to enter the hilarious world of Larry Shue's The Foreigner. Presented by the Working Title Repertory Company, this is a play in which humor, quirkly characterizations and exceptional acting literally defeat the Klan...
Duke's approach has an enormous appeal -- despite an unsavory past that he now writes off as a "wrong attitude." A swastika-brandishing neo-Nazi in college, he joined the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in high school and worked himself up to the exalted rank of grand wizard before leaving the organization in 1979. Soon after, he founded a white supremacist group called the National Association for the Advancement of White People. The divorced father of two teenage daughters, Duke held no regular job before his election to the state legislature. He has supported himself as a seller...
...Columbus honored in Chicago bore little resemblance to the medieval wizard of Spain's inquisitorial empire. That ancient mariner was now conceived to be a champion of Anglo-Saxon (Protestant) values. The Spaniards had taken guns and the catechism abroad. America, said Mark Twain, took guns and the King James Bible to the Philippines, and President McKinley said he would make the island inhabitants good Christians. For the Chicago fair, sculptor Daniel Chester French, creator of American icons like the seated Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, fashioned a 14-ft. statue of Columbus driving an imperial chariot...