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Jerry Bruckheimer loves guys who love cars. He produces movies for them, four-on-the-floor vehicles like Days of Thunder (Tom Cruise in a stock car, making two hours of left turns) and The Rock (Nicolas Cage revving a yellow Ferrari). Beverly Hills Cop, Bad Boys, even Top Gun and Con Air (planes are just cars on a highway of clouds) and Armageddon (grease monkeys in outer space), all celebrate speed, combat and heavy machinery--three things that make every ride a macho adventure. A Bruckheimer movie without a car chase would be like a Woody Allen movie without...
...looks like the fall campaign will be straight hand-to-hand combat in the swing states," says Tumulty. Gun control in New Jersey. Social Security in Michigan. "He thinks he can win on the issues if he can keep it close until then...
Look out, New York: Hillary is on the attack. At a benefit breakfast Wednesday, the First Lady tore into Republican rival Rick Lazio, charging him with abandoning the interests of New York's women, children and families and falling prey to the gun lobby. After a stretch of relatively sedate (and occasionally downright cordial) campaigning since Lazio joined the race - replacing New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani - Clinton's vociferous assault took many observers by surprise. Why the sudden about-face...
...discovered 6,000-year-old city in Syria 27. Like the Sabin vaccine 29. One of L.B.J.'s beagles 32. Inflation-fighting agcy. of the '40s 33. Word on a striker's placard, perhaps 34. Euro forerunner 35. Money obtained as political patronage 36. Holder of Nixon's "smoking gun" 37. AC rating units 38. Org. in the movie Michael Collins 40. Site of controversial May 28 presidential runoff 42. Specter may seek a sanction against him over the fund-raising scandal 44. Neighbors of radii 48. They're sometimes put on 49. Gene, who is advising Clinton...
...offering me wasn't writing jokes, but controlling the site's content and managing a group of 30 producers. I asked Tim if it concerned him that I had no experience in technology, entertainment or managing people. "I'd much rather take a risk on a young gun than an upwardly failing executive," he said. This is zero-unemployment-speak for "All the upwardly failing executives have jobs, and we figured you wouldn't vomit at the bowie knife thing...