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...arena Starr enters Thursday is nothing like the well-mannered setting of the courtroom. The hearing could look more like a World Wrestling Federation match, a forum where Starr's words could be drowned out by jousting between, say, Barney Frank, Democratic maestro of the verbal stiletto, and Bob Barr, the humorless but relentless Republican former prosecutor. The House Judiciary Committee includes some of the most ideological members of each party, politicians more likely to go for the jugular than the essence of a witness's arguments. Starr will have to defend the logic and fairness of his actions...
Which is an odd thing, for funny is not the way serious-minded people get ahead in America. The road to the White House is littered with bodies of wits like Fred Harris and Mo Udall and Bob Dole. Business leaders and college presidents--they're not funny. Being funny is not even the way certified funny people get ahead. Robin Williams won his Oscar for one of his suffering-psychiatrist parts. Steve Martin now works with David Mamet...
...Chris Matthews, noting that Matthews hadn't yet picked up his prize, a case of Ritalin. He said that Newt Gingrich was going to make some commercial endorsements now, but only those befitting the dignity of his office: "So far, the only one he's accepted is from Bob's Big Boy." He confessed that his naivete had left him unprepared for this year's events: "I used to think that being in bed with Big Tobacco had something to do with PAC contributions...
...songs on Double Live are mostly good, home-cooked fun, but sitting through the 26-song album is a bit like enduring a 26-course meal. The best song is the calmest: Brooks' solemn reading of Bob Dylan's To Make You Feel My Love. The album's biggest flaw is American Honky-Tonk Bar Association, a demagogic number that mocks welfare recipients. A true populist would show empathy for people who can't afford his albums...
...some religious groups, which have often complained that Hollywood ignores spiritual themes, this easygoing faith is a mixed blessing. "The idea that people are interested in spiritual things, that there's this longing for something beyond ourselves, is positive. But we have a problem with theological error," explains Bob Smithouser, who writes movie reviews for Plugged In, a publication of the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family. His critique of What Dreams May Come complained that the movie's New Age conceits "fly in the face of biblical truth." As if Hollywood was ever faithful to a book...