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...Rice, we only swatted a fly once, on the 20th of August 1998. We didn't swat any flies afterwards. How the hell could he be tired?" BOB KERREY, Democratic member of the 9/11 commission, referring to the 1998 retaliatory missile strike that President Bill Clinton ordered against al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan...
PEOPLE: The war to play Janis, Bob Dylan shills panties, Ricky Gervais on dealing with desk jobs...
...adjust your screens. That dark chap crooning beside a bosomy, winged model in a Venetian palazzo in a new Victoria's Secret commercial is Bob Dylan. The counterculture bard who once sang of "Advertising signs that con you" is now a TV pitchman. Recruited for his "confidence and gravitas," according to a Victoria's Secret spokesman, Dylan plays his 1997 song Love Sick in the spot (in which, coincidentally, parts of models seem to defy gravitas). His record label called the ad "a great way to reach people with Bob's music." It's also a great way to hang...
...most dramatic moment of Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9/11 commission last week-her confrontation with former Senator Bob Kerrey-was also the most revealing. Kerrey was hammering Rice about the President's now famous "fly swatting" remark. Bush had asked Rice for a comprehensive strategy for dealing with al-Qaeda; he didn't want any more futile pinprick attacks. "What fly had he swatted?" Kerrey demanded. And a minute later: "Why didn't we respond to the [bombing of the U.S.S.] Cole? Why didn't we swat that...
...Billy Bob Thornton, as the charismatic Davy Crockett, ably demonstrates a good man struggling to live up to his great name; his legendary exploits include killing bears, jumping the Mississippi and riding lightning bolts, but here he’s just one soldier with his best days far behind him. Even the Mexican soldiers in Santa Anna’s army are impressed and fascinated by the tales of the famous Crockett and often secretly support him. Combining heroism with humor, Thornton gives a fantastic, flawed performance as Crockett...