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Kubrick began to woo Cruise as early as 1995, after his longtime friend Sydney Pollack, who produced Cruise's film The Firm, reassured him that the young star was no brat. At first Cruise thought Pollack (who ended up appearing in the film too) was kidding when he said Kubrick wanted the star's fax number. But soon, Cruise recalls, they began "faxing each other back and forth, never really discussing the movie, just talking about airplanes and cameras." A year later, Kubrick faxed Kidman with an offer to be in the film with her husband. "I didn't need...
...makes up her mind. While Bush has so much of the country's attention, will he prove Ford wrong and lead us someplace instead of blowing $60 million on slick ads and a fog machine of road-tested, split-the-difference platitudes? He could lead, not follow, and woo the Christian right by bringing them along, not just kneeling down with them...
After the moneymen, the next constituency to woo were the heavyweights who really control the Republican Party these days--the Governors, with their early-warning systems and their fund-raising networks and their serene distance from the party in Congress. One of the first to sign on was Montana's Marc Racicot, who had called in September 1997 out of the blue and told Bush that if he runs, "I'll be there." You're early, the Governor replied then, given the fact that he hadn't even announced whether he was running again for Governor. "Well," Racicot replied...
...even with the University's distinguished pool of black scholars as a resource to help woo prospective professors, Wilson suggested that a huge demand for a tight supply of top black intellectuals only adds to the problem...
...even with the University's distinguished pool of black scholars as a resource to help woo prospective professors, Wilson suggested that a huge demand for a tight supply of top black intellectuals only adds to the problem...