Word: agente
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...surgery is bound to stir up some resentment. For several years, RILEY WESTON, a 32-year-old divorced actress and screenwriter, has been passing herself off as a 19-year-old, originally to get good roles and later to promote herself as a writing wunderkind. She successfully fooled her agent, the press, her colleagues and Disney, which recently signed her to a six-figure deal. Her secret was discovered last week when someone tipped off Entertainment Tonight that Weston, who wrote and guest-starred in an episode of the WB network's teen drama Felicity, may be a better actress...
...captain, brave and beefy, unsubtle except in naval matters and mathematics. Stephen Maturin, Irish and Catalan, sallow and scrawny, is a gifted surgeon who can whip off a shattered arm or leg and Bob's your uncle; he is also a naturalist, a rare linguist, and a shrewd intelligence agent for the British Admiralty...
While Robert Edwards, the first-round pick from Georgia who has replaced Curtis Martin in New England's backfield, was setting an NFL record with touchdown runs in his first six games, Martin was just as effective. Martin, signed as a restricted free agent in the offseason, rushed for 107 yards to Edwards...
After all, who cares about the history anymore? Though we once watched films to see Knute Rockne win one for the Gipper, we're now cheering on his agent. As much as Cuba Gooding, Jr., may have stolen the show in Jerry Maguire, the 1997 movie was built around the football player's slicked-up dealmaker. James Bond movies used to paint the Russians as the enemy; the most recent Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies, vilified Elliot Carver, a media mogul intent on boosting ratings...
...however wicked pop culture gets with its self-consciousness, I still think there's a certain wish for sincerity that cuts through. After all, Jerry Maguire is about an agent who finally finds his heart, and its Oscar went to the dancing football player who isn't afraid to get sentimental about the kwan. This pendulum swing back from meta-gazing helps to explain the success of the gooey, sunset-flooded Titanic and its Celine Dion title song. Of course, we're not returning to the El-Cid era of filmmaking in which we're expected to throw our hearts...