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Making the Scene

The opposite of acting

October 2, 2008

Last Saturday, the day Paul Newman died, I went to the movies. I didn’t feel like weeping along with Richard Gere and Diane Lane in “Nights in Rodanthe” or suffering through the dysfunctionality of “Fireproof” or “Towelhead.” I had no need to watch Spike Lee correct the record about black World War II soldiers in “Miracle at St. Anna.” So I went with the crowd to see the weekend box-office winner, “Eagle Eye.” But watching all the Stephen Spielberg-produced mayhem about a Pentagon computer taking control of the government, my mind kept going back to Paul Newman. The end of an era proclaimed the tributes pouring in for the iconic 83-year-old actor. His obituary, which read like a great script from Hollywood’s golden age, alluded to him as the last of the Movie Stars who fulfilled our fantasies … when our fantasies were a lot simpler.

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Learning his lines

September 25, 2008

It’s a voice that can inspire terror, just talking about what’s for dinner. But at the other end of the phone line, it sounds cheery, downright friendly.

“Rick? Tony Hopkins.

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Bad intelligence

September 18, 2008

When no one could find any weapons of mass destruction, it raised the possibility that we might have gone to war in Iraq by mistake. The people responsible for making the call blamed it on bad intelligence.

They were being literal.

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Run over by a trailer

September 11, 2008

A curious fact of modern life is the way it keeps getting harder to find the line between what we call entertainment and what we call reality.

This political season may mark the watershed when we stop trying.

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Hippie history

September 4, 2008

Not long after Hawaii became a state, the hippies started arriving. Many were fleeing all the upheaval rocking the Mainland at the time — the Vietnam war, the racism, the riots in the streets.

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MAKING THE SCENE

August 28, 2008

The irony of it all isn’t lost on Woody Allen. Now that he’s finally beginning to get the drift of what really goes on between men and women, he’s personally too old to do much about it.

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