Word: ranched
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...mittens to his coat sleeves since his first run for Governor, in 1994. Fiercely loyal, she is among the very few who can put the arm on Bush, getting him to insert into a speech a policy point he wants to leave out or appear on television from his ranch when he doesn't want to. "She is the only one who can get him to do something when he starts whining," says someone who has spent time with both...
Maybe George Lucas ought to get out more. For the past three years, as he ruled his multimedia empire from the palatial redoubt of Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, Calif., Lucas has dwelt in the lovely dream that his 1999 Star Wars movie, Episode I--The Phantom Menace, was universally loved. Lately, though, inquiring journalists have slapped him awake. "I'm getting my education now from the press," he says. "They come in and say, 'Wow. People hated your movie. What do you think about that...
Lucas, the responsible father, the reborn director, now seems eager to rediscover part of his youth: the avant-garde film geek. So maybe it's not important that the Sage of Skywalker Ranch doesn't spend much time in the sooty real world. He's very comfortable living where he does: in that shiny fantasy world--teeming, galactic, still not totally charted--known as George Lucas' mind...
...five wives was the stripper Tempest Storm. Jeffries was a mellow baritone; he had sung with Cab Calloway. On screen, as Herbert Jeffrey, he became the smoothest cowboy west of Sugar Hill in four sagebrush sing-a-longs made in the late 30s at a black-owned California ranch. As Bogle observes, Jeffries and his light-skinned leading ladies were the "whites" in these films; the supporting roles were taken by dark-skinned comics like Mantan Moreland...
...when I showed up at Raratu Lodge, near Havelock North on North Island, ready to get down to the ranch and shear some sheep, proprietor Pete Hill was quietly amused. Forget New Zealand's shepherding heritage?nothing could get him to herd sheep, even if he had any. "Field lice," as he called them, were far too stupid and too prone to disease. Seeing my city slicker's crushed expression, he did offer me the chance to douse a few of his dairy cows with a de-worming bath, but the intermittent late summer showers ruled that...