Word: kinship
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...star, Rock Hudson, whom Mulligan had directed the year before in the romantic comedy Come September. But Pakula and Mulligan held out for Peck, the screen's flintiest rock of movie rectitude. Lee was in enthusiastic agreement, for she had based Atticus on her lawyer father and saw a kinship between him and Peck. On the first day of shooting she told him, "Gregory, you've got a little potbelly just like my daddy," and Peck replied, "Harper, that's great acting." Forty years later, on the star's death, Lee emerged from seclusion to testify, "Gregory Peck...
...ever find yourself developing a kinship with ideologues of different stripes...
...Hussein, Berlusconi sent 3,000 Italian peacekeeping troops to southern Iraq. During Bush's June 2004 visit to Rome, the two leaders were the target of a massive anti-war rally. But Berlusconi, who at the time was growing increasingly unpopular with Italian voters, did not play down his kinship with the President during an interview then with TIME. "We have the same roots. He was in business and sports, and so was I. We can speak to each other," Berlusconi declared. The two always made a point of calling each other by their first names, regularly slapped each others...
...Sturgess said, “He was cool, an amazing actor, great guy, fun guy, but an intense guy when necessary... His films have been such a big part of my imagination.” Despite the differences between Sturgess and his character, the actor felt a kinship with the role of Ben. “He needs a kick-start to think outside of the box and not live in a safe environment, which is so easy for all of us to do. And I think acting is what stops me from doing that,” he said...
...that Senator John S. McCain has clinched the Republican nomination, he must overcome an identity crisis. Should he change his history of bipartisan voting to strengthen his Republican kinship ties? Or will his attempts to woo the right-wingers of his party alienate Independents? McCain’s recent flip-flop on torture suggests that he is trying to attract the right-wing Republican vote. That seems to explain why McCain, one of the nation’s staunchest opponents of torture, voted not to pass an anti-torture bill.This came as a surprise for those who know of McCain?...