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...course, nobody in movies is all star or all actor. Every star is playing a role, and every actor reveals bits of himself or herself. But so many child stars, including some of the brilliant ones - Mickey Rooney, Margaret O'Brien, Billy Gray, Patty Duke, Tatum O'Neal - either found it difficult to sustain their appeal as adult actors or relied too long on the tricks they'd picked up as kids...
...Anyone who is either Jewish or Catholic has a feeling that guilt is essential to life,” said Pinker, joking that the guiltiest countries in the world should be Ireland, Italy, and Israel...
...while Buckley’s anti-elitism was charming because of its element of ironic self-awareness, today’s conservatives, admittedly attempting to follow his lead, have lapsed either into a reflexive philistinism or George Will’s poseurish pomposity. Buckley only could maintain this balance because he understood that one must first have the benefit of intelligence before maligning the intelligent. As for elitism, he was an aristocrat par excellence, fond of Bach and sailing, and is rumored to have taken his yacht outside of U.S. waters so that he could smoke pot while preserving...
...quickly enough after Bill Cunningham, a conservative talk radio host, warmed up a Cincinnati rally with a few loaded references to "Barack Hussein Obama." Asked afterwards if it was appropriate to use the Senator's middle name, McCain said, "No, it is not. Any comment that is disparaging of either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama is totally inappropriate...
...middle names that have caused their owners the most political trouble. In 2006, Jim Henry Webb hammered home the fact that his Virginia Senate opponent was actually George Felix Allen - a middle name that conjured up images of Felix Unger, or perhaps the real life Prince Felix of Luxemburg, either one a far cry from the tobacco-chewing good ole boy Allen styled himself as. In the last presidential election, both Bush and Kerry had middle names inherited from elite East Coast families. But Bush's middle name had much more swagger; you'll never see a TV show called...