Word: minding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have been betrayed by the players that everyone looked up to. It makes me laugh thinking about how much outrage they can conjure, about how quickly their thoughts are turned to print and posts. Much too quickly. Me, I'm trying to type as fast as I can. The mind is willing, but the fingers just won't fly like they used to. That's why I'm able to cut the Rocket a little slack, just like Senator Mitchell suggested. As for the rest of my fellow journalists, well, maybe we need the Senator to continue his work...
...just when I thought I'd passed on every vintage Christmas tele-tale to my progeny, I rediscovered another gem this year. It came to mind because my daughter recently turned 10, and it occurred to me that she shares the big-hearted pluck of another 10-year-old girl who made a lasting impression on my 1972 Christmas, when I myself was 10. Her name was Addie Mills, the heroine of a spare but moving TV drama called The House Without a Christmas Tree - which by happy coincidence was just released on DVD. Yule-o-philes will want...
...together.” A long process that is, except when it came to casting the principal female character, Samantha Booke. Jurnee Smollett (“Gridiron Gang,” “Roll Bounce”) only read for the part once before Washington made up his mind that she was perfect for the role. Laughing, he admits to also being more than a bit influenced by his wife’s non-stop insistence that Smollett would be excellent in the part. But input from his family concerning his work is nothing new to Washington. His wife...
...slept with as many women as possible,” he says with a laugh, mentioning that Cox is legendary for his reckless lifestyle. But seriously, folks: “I prepare in different ways for every part. I usually try to fill in the gaps in my mind and in areas where I don’t have a lot of experience,” he says. “Whether it’s a swordfisherman or a pornstar—I just fill in the gaps.” Beyond his routine “gap-filling...
...Jane Pittman, in which the protagonist would ask young people, "Are you the one?" Winfrey then proclaimed, "I'm here to tell you, he is the one." That was probably too portentous for anything but daytime television. But the freshness of Obama's personality, the easy elegance of his mind--and the fact that his fabulously American racial provenance has become an afterthought for so many winter-pale Iowans--have been the most memorable aspect of this primary season...