Word: sonly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Bush's record represents his best shot at convincing voters that he isn't just a new kind of favorite son--a way for a father to avenge defeat or party elders to retake the White House. It is also a window on what kind of President he would be: a nimble leader who bonds with the players, exploits his charm and energy, but also takes what he can get, sees what he wants to see and has no problem getting along with entrenched power...
...history. "I don't even know who was playing today," he admits. "St. Louis and some weird other team that beat somebody else that was supposed to get in the Super Bowl." DiCaprio isn't as in touch with American culture as American culture is with him. The son of a legal secretary and a hippie underground-comic-book artist, both retired, DiCaprio still thinks of himself as an edgy indie actor, not the Tiger Beat cover boy. "I have no connection with me during that whole Titanic phenomenon and what my face became around the world." Which is good...
...just as willful and complex playing Arnie, the retarded boy living under a death sentence in What's Eating Gilbert Grape; as he is playing Meryl Streep's pyromaniac son Hank in Marvin's Room. Other young actors, to keep viewers on their side, would strike the sympathy key fortissimo. But DiCaprio, knowing that he had a cuddly-toy quality (a face just shy of puberty, a smile that, in his first TV spot, was used to sell milk), barely rouged the rougher aspects of his characters. Toby is a decent kid, but his stabs at '50s punkdom rasp...
CANDIDATE: George W. Bush SIDEKICK: George H.W. Bush, former President BLANDLY OBSEQUIOUS QUOTE: "This boy, this son of ours, is not going to let you down. He is going to go all the way." PREVIOUS SIDEKICK EXPERIENCE: Vice President, Reagan Administration, 1981-89 WHAT'S IN IT FOR HIM: Vengeance MODEL TV DUO: Andy Taylor and Opie...
...son James sent me this classified ad from the current issue of the Washington City Paper. That "Quakerism a plus" is the sort of touch that can't be faked. The ad is hilarious for a moment, and then sort of touching - toothsome and loathsome and (in some bizarre way) wholesome, all at the same time...