Word: ways
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...Steven Spielberg at DreamWorks, despite the efforts of Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth ("Forrest Gump"), who spent nearly a year composing a screenplay in rhyme. "Seussical," the $10 million musical pastiche of several Seuss stories narrated by Seuss's Cat, has also had its share of bumps on the way to Broadway. Key members of the creative team have been replaced, while lyricist Lynn Ahrens, who wrote "Ragtime" with her partner Stephen Flaherty, has faced the challenge of simulating Seuss's inimitable poetry - "trying to keep the gist of that," Ahrens says, "while trying to find different rhythms so there...
...election fray was joined by Jesse Jackson (whom one WABC spieler absently referred to as "Reverend Sharpton") and Robert Wexler ("one of the most vicious Clinton defenders," according to one of Grant's guests), the Radio Right hosts were ecstatic. They feed on familiar figures of liberal fun the way David Letterman milked the name "Buttafuoco" for years of monologues...
...agent Eamon O'Reilly (swarthy Michael Ansara, best known for working on ex-wife Barbara Eden's "I Dream of Jeannie"). O'Reilly intends to use bubonic plague to conquer the world - unless he can be stopped by our bodysuit-clad, machine-gun-totin' heroines (who are, by the way, quite nicely coiffed as well...
...Russians giggled last week when the Communist party tabled a resolution in the Duma demanding that independent observers monitor the U.S. election. But as of Wednesday, some were wondering whether the Reds had a point. International reaction to the U.S. presidential quagmire has ranged from incredulity to amusement, by way of a large dose of knowing recognition...
...beyond the incredulity and the joking, the most widespread response worldwide was praise for the way Americans and their politicians have handled the meltdown. Two days after the election the results aren't known, but the streets are calm, the nation is going about its business and nobody doubts the stability of the system or its ability to resolve the mess. In countless other countries, there'd be blood on the streets...