Word: frankness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Philadelphia last week, as correspondents Viveca Novak and Michael Weisskopf investigated the big money behind the big party, writer-reporter Andrew Goldstein and reporter Mitch Frank got undercover assignments: infiltrating the many exclusive shindigs the G.O.P. was throwing. At one point, says Frank, "you had to drive to a naval base, get past two security checkpoints in order to sneak into a party in a giant warehouse." Says Goldstein: "Mitch and I were at a Texas-style BBQ party paid for by mining, gas and nuclear companies featuring tubs of Shiner Bock beer until a congressional aide tossed...
That makes the recent films of Clint Eastwood a bracing, useful social corrective. "I don't know how to break this to you, Frank," a longtime adversary tells Eastwood in Space Cowboys, "but you're an old man." No need to tell Eastwood; he knows. As a sleuth in True Crime and In the Line of Fire, and as a career criminal in Unforgiven and Absolute Power, the actor-director has dramatized the perils and grace of something we all do (if we're lucky): age. His breath is short, his trigger finger is arthritic, and the young women...
...hotdogging fly-boys of the '50s named Hawk (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry (Donald Sutherland) and Tank (James Garner) who were pioneers in Air Force research but got passed over for the first U.S. astronaut program. An old Soviet satellite is about to crash to earth, threatening humanity; since Frank built the technology the Russkies swiped, his expertise is needed. He insists on going up to fix the damn thing and taking his pals along for a senior-citizen road trip to outer space. The Over the Moon Gang rides again, in an alter-kocker Armageddon...
...gentleman of sorts, so--except for displaying the four men's naked butts, which is quite an archaeological sight--he will embarrass neither them nor us. Directing from a script by Ken Kaufman and Howard Klausner, he finds fresh breezes in familiar vectors: the residual rivalry of Frank and Hawk, the tensions between the ancient astronauts and the modern ones, the impact of decay and disease on minds that are still bright, wills that are still strong...
Bill Gates could afford to give away 99% of his entire worth ($65 billion) and still have $650 million in the bank--an amount that 99% of Americans will never see in their lifetime. FRANK D'ANGELI Medford, Mass...