Word: belle
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...wrap up all their low-budget revelry by dark. But this year, as a party-starved Hollywood convened under a leaky tent on the beach in Santa Monica, Calif., the annual frolic over independent film seemed especially, well, spirited. With quirky low-budget movies like Juno and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly well represented in the Oscar nominations, the Spirit Awards didn't need to fulfill its usual role of lauding under-acknowledged indies. Instead it became a place to let your hair down after three months of writers' strike-imposed solemnity...
...rated language aside, there was a lot more banter you won't be hearing at the Academy Awards. Apparently, Hollywood has a big man-crush on the night's honorary chair, Javier Bardem. Wilson, Diving Bell director Julian Schnabel and Dustin Hoffman all copped to it. Hoffman even claimed to have created a love child with Bardem - Philip Seymour Hoffman. Sharing a bed, the good-natured Spanish actor from No Country For Old Men remarked, would be a good way to work on his English...
...dogsled trip to the North Pole, and winner of the National Geographic Adventure Lifetime Achievement Award. He's at home in those frozen, hostile parts of the world that few of us will ever tread. But he's also a dedicated environmentalist who was early to ring the alarm bell on global warming, the effects of which he saw firsthand in his frequent polar expeditions, both in the Arctic and Antarctica. To help raise awareness of the damage climate change is wreaking on the polar regions, next month Steger will be leading a team of six young adventurers...
...best Christopher Walken voice.” As the actor attempted to serenade a cast member with a number from his recent performance in the movie “Hairspray,” a student dressed as a cow burst onto the stage ringing a bell, in a reference to one of Walken’s most famous skits on Saturday Night Live, where he plays a music producer obsessed with adding “more cowbell” to songs. After his performance, a cast member dressed as a buxom bumblebee produced the “Pudding Pot?...
...terror. The tools, the weapons to fight the war on terror are an empowered people who are assured that no man has arbitrary will upon their lives. Now when an election is held without that kind of empowerment, you can feel the lackluster response.... This should be an alarm bell for all those who want to fight terror. And it's not because of the threat of suicide bombers, it is because the people are not taking interest. They know the problem will remain. You know it's like the story of the dead carcass of an animal that fell...