Word: agita
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...Jack Ford wasn't even a young man when he moved in, but he still gave his parents agita. On one occasion says Angelo, "he had a young lady visiting him in his quarters when he heard his mother showing Barbara Walters around the residence." He managed to avoid making what could have been television history, but it was a close call...
Could it be curtains for Tony? It's possible. His battered insides are giving him agita, and there's still trouble with the Brooklyn Mob, whose leader can't forget the murder of his brother by Tony's cousin. Death on The Sopranos can be operatic or bathetic; in the first two episodes screened for critics, one mobster dies in a bloody shooting, another ignominiously of cancer. It's also possible, given creator David Chase's distaste for tidy endings and moral lessons, that Tony could stroll off into retirement as others pay the bill for his deeds...
...London sewer system, and discovers a complex underworld underground, he is at first horrified, then thrilled to join a plucky rodent named Rita (Kate Winslet) in her comrades' battle against the pompous toad king (Ian McKellen). This, Roddy realizes, is the bustle and agitation he's been missing-the agita and ecstasy of life...
...changes are baby steps. Best-selling sportsman Michael Lewis (Moneyball) shifts from baseball to college football. In The Departed, Martin Scorsese moves from the gangs of New York to the Boston mob. Care for a series based on the backstage agita at a sketch-comedy show? NBC has two of them. And, yes, there's a new Bond--craggy Daniel Craig--but Casino Royale follows the recent formula of using a prequel to extend a franchise...
...theme parks from that state?s governor, one Jeb Bush. Harvey Weinstein, co-chair of Miramax, is now trying to buy the film back from Disney and to fashion his own coalition of the willing - other distributors happy to profit from Disney?s timidity. The result of this internal agita will be to raise the profile and, most likely, the profitability of Moore?s film, which he still hopes will open on the July 4th weekend...