Of all the tributes paid to Prince, from the president to the Empire State Building lit up in purple, one point can’t be stressed enough: Prince made the world come to him.
He was an exquisite freak who began on the margins, a tiny, androgynous, ethnically ambiguous being who seemed to alight from the same home planet as David Bowie. But unlike Bowie, who projected performance-art aloofness, Prince was aggressively, joyously carnal, and for a long time, it freaked America out. Read More...
Lisa Desjardins:
OK.
We have all been through this game before, right? And I have to say, I'm usually an optimist. I'm also usually very leery of this situation, because, by the end, we know these lawmakers have ways of figuring this out by the deadline.
But, Amna, I have to say, given the dynamics that we know, given the conversations I'm having on Capitol Hill, we are hurtling toward a government shutdown. Read More...
She is best known for her roles in the movies Beethoven and Beethoven's 2nd as Emily Newton (the youngest daughter of the characters played by Charles Grodin and Bonnie Hunt), and Kindergarten Cop (1990), where she played a pupil of the kindergarten Teacher Arnold Schwarzenegger. As a very short cameo, she also appeared as a young Annie Banks in the film Father of the Bride.
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