Through the closed door we can still hear him cackling. In the early nineteen-sixties, Cheney dropped out of Yale twice, but one professor there made a deep impression on him. That was H. Bradford Westerfield, a diplomatic historian who believed that it was possible that the United States would fall victim to a Communist takeover. And then the shocking thing was that you would enter the classroom and here would be all these nice young people who honestly wanted to learn to write an essay. It was skeptical of power exercised by the United Nations and other multinational alliances, as opposed to that exercised by the United States unilaterally.
Christian Bale got up onstage at the Golden Globes at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, on Sunday night and carried out the usual thank-yous that most do upon receiving an award — spouse, kids, cast, crew, producer, Satan. Well, that last one probably has never been thanked in an acceptance speech before, but while accepting his Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy for his performance as former Vice President Dick Cheney in Adam McKay's "Vice," Bale apparently felt it was right to thank the devil. Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in "Vice. He also said the only reason he got the role was that he could be "absolutely charisma-free. Read more : Here are all the Golden Globes winners. Bale also teased playing another major Republican political figure for his next role — "So Mitch McConnell next? It's probably a joke, but given the way he transformed into Cheney for "Vice," anything is possible.
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