Word: awkwardness
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...years his senior. "We are listening to Gregorian chant," he sings. "She barely speaks and me I say nothing/ We have a relationship like that/ Fanny Ardant and me." Delerm deftly turns an implausible conceit into a finely observed slice of life, in which the odd couple spend awkward weekends at his parents' house. "I like the idea that we don't know the people around us, what's going on in their heads," Delerm says. "We see two people across from each other or in a car or in a bed, and we don't know how the other...
...closures come at an awkward time for the Indonesian government, with Yudhoyono wrapping up his otherwise successful trip to Washington. The two sides reached an agreement on sales of nonlethal equipment to Indonesia's military, long withheld because of accusations of widespread human-rights abuses. But it was also hoped that Yudhoyono's visit would help entice foreign investors to Indonesia who are still skeptical over corruption and spooked by the country's terrorist rumblings?a fear that the embassy closure does nothing to assuage. It's possible, though, that the shutdown might actually strengthen Yudhoyono's hand in dealing...
...that’s right. From the minds that brought us the awkward TD Banknorth Garden and the improbable McDonald’s All-American Basketball Team comes a new form of advertising, still in its early planning stages. Outsized billboards deployed into low earth orbit and visible to the naked eye could some day bring us the Eagles-inspired Jose Cuervo Tequila Sunrise and the largely unintended Chuck E. Cheese’s Partial Lunar Eclipse...
Liman has a knack for making bad luck work for him. That first shot is a good example: the Smiths are trying couples counseling, and their unfamiliarity with each other as actors and as people plays perfectly onscreen as the awkward distance of a husband and wife who have become strangers. But Liman's MacGyver-like improvisational style can come at a price. "It was a very hard shoot," he admits. "I don't necessarily go into a movie with the characters figured out." He built an entire snow-covered mountain on a Fox sound stage, then scrapped it when...
...Speaking of which, Mos has played the best friend, the sidekick, the neighbor-when is he going to get the girl? "When the time is right, it will come," he says. "You know, intimacy on screen is awkward. I think sex is the one thing you cannot successfully portray on camera." Instead, Mos's next role is as an autistic man opposite Bruce Willis in the action thriller 16 Blocks. But don't ask him to talk too much about himself to sell it. "I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like...