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...during a deep-sea bathysphere dive. A boy (Carter Jenkins) finds a translucent egg on the beach and puts it in his aquarium, not knowing it's sea-monster caviar. And there's a government plot to hide the truth, led by a scientist (Rade Sherbedgia) with a Dracula accent. (Because, of course, real Americans don't do cover...
...Surveys Jay Chou deserves a promotion. Chinese-language media refers to the Taiwan-born star as "small heavenly King," in deference to Hong Kong's "big heavenly Kings," four Canto-pop idols who have long dominated the industry. But Chou, who has given hip-hop a Chinese accent, may finally be ready to ascend into their realm of superstardom. Each of his first five albums has gone triple platinum, he blitzed the box office with his summer film debut Initial D and unlike most idols, he can actually write his own music. Chou will be mixing beats and ballads again...
Meeting Audrey, my quasi mother, was even stranger. Tilda Swinton had a Scottish accent in her trailer but spoke like a born American when the cameras were turned on. Her performance was so convincing that when the actors took time out for lunch, I found myself confiding in her about a romantic breakup I was suffering through. Writing autobiographical fiction, it's often said, is therapeutic for a novelist, but it's nothing compared with spilling one's guts to a live human being who is posing as one's parent...
...each idea?history embraced memory and society, for example?to better accommodate the works included under each title. Critics said Tate Modern chose this nontraditional arrangement to cover up the museum's weaknesses, particularly in works from the first half of the 20th century. Curator Frances Morris prefers to accent the positive, saying that the huge spaces in Tate Modern's home, a former power station, presented an opportunity "to explore the strengths of the collection." Those experiments were being closely watched at the Pompidou, France's National Museum of Modern Art. While appreciating their thematic approaches, Grenier felt that...
...burden and troubles of our people," said producer Wadia Nader. The show, watched nightly by about 50% of Iraqi TV viewers, isn't flashy, with spartan sets and no studio audience. But it does have Simon Cowell's Iraqi alter ego, Muhammad Hadi, whose slams have a local accent. His dis of one hopeful's off-key song about a hummingbird: "Slaughtered bird is masculine. You kept saying it is feminine." BILAL, playing an oud, had no such trials. In a performance dedicated to his country, the 12-year-old from Mosul made the judges cry and himself a favorite...