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...fact, you didn't have to be an idiot to think that cultural war was a winning strategy. At the time, I also thought that Buchanan's speech was effective -- chillingly effective. (And Buchanan contends that a script of the speech was cleared in advance by several Republican officials, despite their later efforts to portray him as an unguided missile.) But it turns out we were all wrong. The voters were not interested in a cultural war. What has changed in the political landscape in the two years since Quayle's Murphy Brown speech is not a return to "family...
Eventually, Ingram developed a technique for recovering memories. He took each fresh, unfamiliar accusation and prayed over it until he went into a trancelike haze. Two or three days later he would offer his interrogators a detailed script of the scene, complete with dialogue and a cast list...
...would make a great script for a movie or TV mini-series: company founder's teenage grandson rebels against going into family liquor business and vows instead to carve out his own career as a show-biz tycoon. But the movies and plays he produces, partly with his share of the family wealth, all bomb; he returns, chastened, to the place being held for him in the family firm. There he unexpectedly shows a fair executive talent and succeeds in keeping an already giant company growing, largely by diversifying beyond whiskeymaking. But he remains screenstruck, and as he approaches...
...control of Paramount but lost, then bought a big block of MGM and actually became chairman in 1969, only to resign after Kirk Kerkorian took over the company. Bronfman continued, however, to back Broadway shows (one was 1776) and motion pictures. In 1970 Edgar Jr., then 14, found a script on a table of the family's New York City apartment and talked his father into bankrolling Melody, a movie based on that script. He skipped summer camp and went to London to make tea and run errands for the filmmakers. Puttnam, the producer, remembers him wearing the same...
...perfectionist admit that few performers work harder. A musician who played in her Las Vegas show logged in 60 hours of orchestra rehearsal time, and says Streisand, unlike most singers, was present for almost every minute. Lyricist Marilyn Bergman, who with her partner and husband Alan helped write the script for Streisand's stage show, scoffs at her reputation as a difficult diva. "Barbra never says, 'That's good enough.' People who don't understand or appreciate this process might find it threatening or tiresome. But she is indefatigable...