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" If you are money, then, when you die, you will be spent. "
Spent
Will
You
" I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods that was once filled by the pictures in stained glass. Hollywood is post-Christian Venice - in other words, a pantheon of saints without the hassle and heartache of religion. "
Way
Long
Need
" It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're pretending - that is, when they're acting. The really good ones don't always seem to know themselves. "
You
Writing
Know
" It's an established fact. Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it. "
Being Pregnant
Love
Stand
" Most mustaches lie waiting for some Clark Gable or Tom Selleck to fix them in the mind. The greatest are identified with a single man, a bad man, usually, who so wrapped his identity with a particular configuration of facial hair that the two became inseparable. "
Man
Waiting
Mind
" Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it. "
Stand
Big
Being Pregnant
" The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as he's anything else. He takes time telling stories, too. "
Career
Time
Handsome
" The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel Brooks, made of the jolly, beanie wearing fat man a side-kick and a legend. "
Legend
Fat
Appreciation
" The Toothbrush mustache is the most powerful configuration of facial hair the world has ever known. It overpowers whoever touches it. By merely doodling a Toothbrush mustache on a poster, you make a political statement. "
Hair
Political
Powerful
" The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the end of the 19th century the way Americans would turn up with ducktails in the 1950s. It was a bit of modern efficiency, an answer to the ornate mustaches of Europe - pop effluvia that fell into the grip of a bad, bad man. "
Mustache
End
Efficiency
" When a movie star sits and talks to you, it's almost always, and only, because she's promoting something. "
You
Star
Only
" When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution. "
Battle
Despair
Problem
" With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony. It's as old as old Huck Finn, but, in our age, it has migrated from the fringes to the center. "
American
Kind
Quality
" Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in. "
Writing
Beginning
Impossible
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