Who's WhoVolume 296 no. 5 / December 2005 Abizaid, John, as insurgency diagnostician, 68 Adams, Ansel, Windex and, 137 Affleck, Ben, poker habits of, 121 Alaïa, Azzedine, fashion designer, as "King of Cling," 116 Allen, Woody, projected immortality of, 105 Amis, Martin, Lolita test of, 131 Batali, Dean, TV writer, Winnie the Pooh collection of, 168; on need for "Christian Vagina Monologues," 168 Bellow, Saul, high school chums of, 78-80, 82; as father figure, 78-88; penmanship of, 82; faint praise of, 86 Bogart, Humphrey, as bully, 178 Bush, George W., fiscal profligacy of, 37-38; Iraqi army and, 60, 70, 74; on Kazakhstan, 100 Byron, Lord, Nabokovian entanglements of, 134 Castro, Fidel, literary unmasking of, 123 Catapano, Karen, as Long Island goat farmer, 174 Charles, Ray, airbrushed life of, 166 Chekhov, Anton, on internalized slavery, 138 Chirac, Jacques, book-length indictment of, 138 Clark, Dick, grudgingly accepted mortality of, 15; eternal tautness of, 15 Clinton, Hillary, on Grand Theft Auto, 129 Coffin, William Sloane, minister, as hostage emissary, 94-95, 97; CIA background of, 94; as grandstander, 97 Coogan, Jackie, as elderly child star, 178 Cordesman, Anthony, on Iraqi army myopia, 63-64, 66 DeLong, Brad, economist, fiscal-catastrophe projections of, 38 Derrickson, Scott, as Biola grad, 164; as Hellraiser V auteur, 166 Dumont, René, development agronomist, as Castro critic, 123 Duras, Marguerite, lost illusions of, 123 Ensler, Eve, absent Christian analogue of, 168 Express, Marie, prostitute, mysterious death of, 54 Fey, Charles August, as father of the slot machine, 121 Foster, Norman, architect, Kazakh "Palace of Peace" envisioned by, 98 Franks, Tommy, wandering attention of, 66 Freud, Sigmund, quackishness of, 133 Friedman, Bill, gaming analyst, on casino feng shui, 129 Fuentes, Carlos, lost illusions of, 123 Garland, Judy, premature middle age of, 178; Jolsonian dynamism of, 178; as Sinatra de-pantser, 179; troublesome son-in-law of, 179 God, accidental birth of, 105-112; Hollywood following of, 161-168 Grant, Martin, fashion designer, Aussie roots of, 116; grandmother of, 116 Gresham, Douglas, C. S. Lewis stepson, as script supervisor, 162 Guthrie, Stewart, anthropologist, on emperor-free clothes, 111 Hashim, Ahmed, military analyst, on black hole of Iraqi security, 63 Hedaya, Yael, Israeli novelist, grippingly uneventful book of, 133 Hitler, Adolf, destruction of Warsaw and, 46; questionable soul of, 105 Hughes, Howard, smog-free Vegas envisioned by, 157 Jaafari, Ibrahim, Iraqi PM, as marked man, 46 Jensen, Marten, "Doctor of Gambling," on inescapable disadvantages of slot-playing, 124 John Paul II, Darwinian concessions of, 112 Johnson, Samuel, olfactory distaste of, 176 Kadyrov, Akhmad, Chechen rebel leader, as Putin honoree, 52 Karig, Walter, Navy commander, as Nancy Drew author, 32 Karol, K. S., as Nazi survivor, 123; as gulag survivor, 123; idealism of, 123; Cuban disappointments of, 123 Kasparov, Garry Kimovich, as Putin foe, 48-52; liberal bona fides of, 48; ketchup-covered eggs and, 50; as dirty-tricks target, 50 Kerry, John, creationist supporters of, 111 Khomeini, Ruhollah, as Christmas-card recipient, 96, 97 Kirk, James T., future birthplace of, 34; bodily takeover of, 109 Kushner, Tony, absent Christian analogue of, 168 Langer, Susanne K., philosopher, on challenges of Chaos, 106 Lawrence, T. E., as counterinsurgency theorist, 71; soup-eating strategy of, 72 Legato, Frank, gambling analyst, on irreducible impersonality of slot machines, 123 Lincoln, Abraham, clairvoyant dream of, 16 Luft, Sidney, as boxer, 178; as Canadian air-force veteran, 178; as punch line, 179; as "least worst man in Judy Garland's life," 179 Manilow, Barry, as casino greeter, 158 Mansfield, Jayne, plural nature of, 34 Mao Zedong, as earthquake epicenter, 46; as "opportunistic gangster," 118; as anti-hygiene, 118; as pro-torture, 118 Mashkevich, Alexander, oligarch, generosity of, 98, 103-104 Massoud, Ahmad Shah, as romantic-memoir subject, 138 Maticevski, Toni, fashion designer, mom-and-pop operation of, 116 Mattis, Jim, U.S. general, Harrison Ford incarnation of, 64; mayoral expeditionary force proposed by, 64 al-Meshad, Yahya, Iraqi nuclear scientist, covert assassination of, 54 Metrinko, Michael, Iran hostage, refused Christmas dinner of, 97 Miller, Scott, deejay, as sympathy hostage, 92 Minnelli, Liza, farcical decline of, 179 Montana, Tony, video-poker preferences of, 129 Mother Teresa, baked likeness of, 111 Myles, Curtis, monorail wrangler, instant performance reviews of, 160 Nabokov, Vladimir, as Khomeini antagonist, 131; punning of, 134-135; Joycean achievement of, 131-135 Nasser, Gamal Abdel, thwarted missile program of, 56 Nazarbayev, Nursultan, Kazakh president, as exterior decorator, 98; hallowed palm print of, 100; messianic delusions of, 100; shepherd ancestors of, 100; leisure suit of, 102; as man with golden gun, 102; "instinctive plasticity" of, 102; as circusmaster, 104 Newton, Isaac, pitilessness of, 108 Nicolosi, Barbara, former nun, as screenwriting mentor, 161-168 Nobel, Alfred, as second-rate playwright, 15 Olsen, Ashley, grilled-cheese cameo of, 111 Ophelia, superfluity of, 131 Pamuk, Orhan, Turkish novelist, criminalized speech of, 15 Paul, apostle, as heaven skeptic, 112 Pedersen, Kim, monorail mandarin, on People Mover apostasy, 158; on light-rail insanity, 159 Perl, Jed, art critic, on comparative astringencies, 118; Wilsonian virtuosity of, 118 Persinger, Greg, Iran hostage, encyclopedia intake of, 94 Petraeus, Dave, U.S. general, on Iraqi security forces, 63, 71-74; as Lawrence reader, 71; Ph.D. of, 72 Philbin, Regis, as New Year's savior, 15 Pinker, Steven, on limits of self-delusion, 107 Plato, arts policy of, 123 Porter, Michael, economic-development guru, as Kazakh image consultant, 102 Putin, Vladimir, as censor in chief, 51; as hyena-minder, 51 Queen, Richard, Iran hostage, as impromptu librarian, 92 Roach, Stephen, economist, fiscal-catastrophe projections of, 38 Rodriguez, Narciso, as unsung fashion hero, 116 Rumsfeld, Donald, as insurgency skeptic, 68; operational boredom of, 70 Said, Nuri, former Iraqi PM, neologistic lynching of, 46 Schiaparelli, Elsa, as jargon fodder, 116 Schröder, Gerhard, soft touch of, 100 Seacrest, Ryan, tousled hair of, 15; as Dick Clark-in-waiting, 15 Shinawatra, Thaksin, Thai prime minister, empathy of, 15; slightly tawdry mourning techniques of, 15 Shinn, Barbara, Merlot pioneer, subterranean mushrooms and, 171 Sinatra, Frank, as Garland paramour, 179 Singer, Alvy, roller-coaster childhood of, 160 Sklansky, David, gambling theorist, on near unbeatability of the house, 129 Sontag, Susan, lost illusions of, 123 Spielberg, Steven, private jet of, 137 Stegner, Wallace, as Bellow skeptic, 80 Swift, Jonathan, bathroom humor of, 136; dairymaids and, 136; social insecurity of, 138 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, as Lolita source material, 134 Trump, Donald, as slot-machine barker, 122; as state of mind, 128 Verdad, Louis, fashion designer, sexy tweeds of, 115 Volcker, Paul, former Fed head, fiscal-catastrophe projections of, 38 Warren, Earl, scanty footnotes of, 59 Wijnants, Christian, fashion designer, as "knitting genius," 115 Wolfsthal, Jon, weapons analyst, on fussiness of centrifuges, 54-56 Yeltsin, Boris, shrinking liberalism of, 50-51; shrinking popularity of, 50; sub rosa heart problems of, 50 Zhakiyanov, Galymzhan, Kazakh dissident, equine lactation and, 103 Benjamin Healy is an Atlantic Monthly deputy managing editor.
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