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...good example of the pleasures of the star revival is the new production of A Man for All Seasons, with Frank Langella doing the honors as Sir Thomas More, the chancellor to King Henry VIII who went to death rather than betray his conscience by blessing the king's divorce and his break with the Church of Rome. Langella's interpretation has drawn some criticism, suprisingly, for being too saintly and hammy - surprising because what stood out for me in Langella's performance was how bracingly human it is. As the rebellious counselor, Langella is a man of stoic determination...
...same time, the election and technology bred another, kinder-and- dorkier group of stars: the geekocracy. CNN's John King broke down election returns and poll figures on a touchscreen "magic wall," while NBC guru Chuck Todd crunched numbers on what resembled an electronic Risk board. Meanwhile, a raft of bloggers used the Web's strength--indulging obsessiveness--to create temples of poll analysis. Chief among them was Nate Silver, a baseball-statistics nut at whose FiveThirtyEight.com habitués debate weighting averages and tracking-poll internals until the wee hours...
...enlists B.B. KING, FLAMING LIPS, B-52S to rerecord chime theme. Dumb, dumb, dumb...
...delegates to the 1978 ConCon created the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs; made Hawaiian one of the official languages of the islands; amended Hawaii's Bill of Rights to refer to King Kamehameha I's "Law of the Splintered Paddle" in decreeing that the modern-day state has the power to provide for the safety of its people; and required public schools to teach Hawaiian education (which typically means inculcating students with Hawaiian songs, language and native cuisine), which has since become a staple of fourth-grade curriculum in the islands...
...mistrust between McCain and the Republican right, his other flank would be in danger too. Conservatives would probably demand a steady stream of vetoes of Democratic legislation, and any failure to deliver would strengthen his younger gop rivals. The McCain-Palin relationship would be Washington's answer to King Arthur and Mordred...