Word: aridity
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...show convenes familiar supporting types--the hunk (Dan Cortese), the wisecracking assistant (Kathy Najimy), the black guy (Daryl "Chill" Mitchell) and the is-he-gay? guy (Wallace Langham)--to bring sense and sarcasm to Ronnie's hectic, arid life. A genial dynamo running her undies empire, for which she was the original cover-girl model, she has a slightly spreading figure and a philandering husband (Christopher McDonald) who is, dammit, the man she loves. This week's debut episode, with Ronnie and her husband attempting a reunion, carries weird echoes of the Princess Diana tragedy: famous couple, paparazzi...
...Storm comes in an edgy scene where Ben tells Elena, "I guess we're just on the verge of saying something--saying something to each other." Saying something harsh and truthful would be a breaking of the code, of the lies that sustain their marriage and keep it arid...
Death is not a happy ending in Hollywood movies. A beloved man is dead, and we mourn, for our loss at least as much as his. But this is a cause for celebration. Today a new generation, raised on facetiousness and arid sensation, has the thrilling duty to discover Stewart's crucial contribution to the movies that made the movies great. The young may also take instruction from his exemplary life story. How simple it was--we would like to say how simply American. Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country and died for love...
...just 1 ft. tall and 2 ft. long, the boxy, six-wheeled, 22-lb. car is nobody's idea of a roadster. But while Cooper will be at the controls at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., the car will be 119 million miles away, touring the arid Ares Vallis floodplain on Mars...
Steven Spielberg has a cute bald spot--a silver-dollar-size patch of arid land on the otherwise fertile scalp that sheathes his even more fertile brain. When making movies he covers it with a studio-issue baseball cap, but certain formal occasions call for cagier camouflage. On Oscar night 1994, when Schindler's List won seven awards (including Best Picture and Best Director) and Jurassic Park took three others, a makeup artist sprayed Spielberg's bald spot with hair-colored paint. No problem, until half an hour into the post-Oscar party, by which time the star...