American - Editor | November 21, 1953 -
It's so thrilling to be intimidated.
Tina Brown
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Obama has figured out the best method to prepare the way for his verbal Houdini acts: Use political noise as the tune-up din before the aria. Perhaps his body temperature is so low, it sometimes takes him too long to break out the song.
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Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous.
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What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace.
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Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company.
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Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.
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The hazard of confessional books is how fast the world moves on while they're written.
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Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.
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It's interesting how the view from abroad can shift and remake perceptions of homegrown celebrities, the ones who are part of the gross domestic product.
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The most frequent thing people said to me about Princess Diana when I was conducting interviews for my biography was that she could create a circle of intimacy in the middle of a crowd.
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The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries.
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Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia.
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