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...like about the Bush brand, who had actually voted against it, who had the impression that the whole clan lived in a rarefied world where no one knows the price of milk and recessions don't happen. The last thing Bush wanted was to convey any idea that this crown was his for the taking, something he had inherited like a life peerage or a seat on the board. "All the focus groups and polling say the same thing," says an insider. "Any sense of entitlement is a catastrophe...
...surprised to find themselves onstage for their fifth of the past six Republican conventions, that's because even they find it "mind boggling" that it is W. who has brought them here. By the standards of the people who love him most, he lacks the temperament to wear the crown. Oh, he is fun, outrageous, the house rebel, great to have around. But when it came to the family business, it was brother Jeb who was supposed to take over and run the show...
...measure of a movie actor is in how many roles he can make himself invisible, only Claude Rains ever gave Alec Guinness a run at the crown...
...middle-class suburb of Bombay, Sushmita was living a dream: she had been wrenched from an ordinary life and forged by the blast furnace of glamour and fame into a celebrity. Yukta, then 15, told her family that she too would one day wear a glittering crown. Her parents smiled at her adolescent fantasies, talked about college and dismissed the whimsical ambition. But Yukta sulked and threw tantrums and eventually persuaded her father to support her participation in the 1999 Miss India contest. She won that title and later became Miss World, planting fantasies, no doubt, in the minds...
...Remember when God told Rene Russo to take off her clothes in that Pierce Brosnan movie The Thomas Crown Affair...