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In La Repubblica of Rome, Washington correspondent Vittorio Zucconi wrote that Clinton's fate lies in the hands of an "electronic god": "A democratic president is mortally threatened by the same medium, television, that 38 years ago helped construct the myth of another Democratic president, Clinton's idol and model, John F. Kennedy."
But teen idol DiCaprio, who plays both an evil king and his good twin, emerges relatively unscathed.
This reassurance--that somehow things will be all right, that there is a lot of ruin in a man, as well as in a nation, to paraphrase his idol, Adam Smith--has become part of me, and I can still summon it up when I am terrified because of a huge quarterly tax payment due or a bad day on the market.
The 90-minute program included segments such as Kaufman chatting with his idol, Howdy Doody, and renditions of songs such as "It's a Small World."
De Kooning could have been thinking of his idol Soutine when he observed, "Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented."