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...company wouldn't be $2 billion in the hole. Heaps of UPS boxes line the floor of his cramped office in the PacMed Center, Amazon's Seattle headquarters. Bezos tears into them as if it's Christmas morning, relishing each moment of surprise. It's a stack of DVDs! Kitchen baskets! Austin Powers dolls! More DVDs! (Sample Bezos picks: Go, American Gigolo, Teaching Mrs. Tingle.) You get the sense he would be buying most of it even if he didn't run the company. This is one CEO who really loves to unwrap things...
...Really" opens with a shot of a TV in a kitchen. (Mais oui! Where else would a woman be watching television?) We see Al Gore at the notorious Buddhist temple fund-raiser, dissembling at a podium, claiming to have created the Internet. The female narrator sneers, "There's Al Gore reinventing himself on television again. Like I'm not going to notice. Who's he gonna be today? The Al Gore who raises campaign money at a Buddhist temple? Or the one who now promises campaign finance reform? Really...
...tongue-in-cheek," and perhaps it could have been. But it's just poorly executed. The narrator comes off not as likable and witty, but bitter and harpy-ish: by the time she huffs, "Re-a-lly," you can practically see her at the end of the kitchen counter, holding a martini in one hand while she lights a cigarette with the one still burning in her mouth. (And yes, that is a sexist image. But try to use positive sexist stereotypes - i.e., that women are inherently nicer than men - and you risk inadvertently conjuring negative ones...
...unrelievedly hostile, so committed to satanizing the strange man from Whittier, that I find myself wanting to defend Nixon - which is quite a novel impulse for me. Even Oliver Stone, who has a minor genius for mischievous dark cartooning (as in his contemptible movie "JFK," with its hallucinations of kitchen-sink conspiracy), treated Nixon as a complex and in some ways sympathetic figure. H.R. Haldeman had it about right when he compared Nixon to "a multifaceted quartz crystal. Some facets bright and shining, others dark and mysterious. And all of them constantly changing as the external light rays strike...
...hasn't been much in evidence at the convention, preferring to stay home with actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, but he made sure he was at the party, handing out Dunhill cigars to one and all. Concerned about Fox, who appeared noticeably tired all evening, Douglas stole into Bender's kitchen and took some desserts up to Fox to revive his spirits. "Michael was a real mensch all night," said Jeffrey Podolsky, George magazine's entertainment editor, clearly showing that all things Jewish are now in - thanks to Joe Lieberman's historic run as the first Jew on a presidential ticket...