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...hours, the comment was up on my pal Brownback's site and also on the pages of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Dennis Kucinich, Duncan Hunter and Chris Dodd. I was taken with Dodd since his page includes his iPod playlists on the "Dodd Podd"--songs from Ben Lee, the Silversun Pickups, Arcade Fire. Who doesn't like a friend who turns them on to new music? But I finally had to eliminate Dodd because the dude kept sending me bulletins. One asked me to vote in an online poll for Iowa's Channel 13 news about which candidate...
...network head Kevin Reilly has lost his job to The Office producer Ben Silverman. Reilly defenders are livid. "He gave his right arm to save 30 Rock and Friday Night Lights," TV blog GIVE ME MY REMOTE wails, raising the questions, Did he also give his job? And what happens to those beloved, low-rated shows now? SCORE...
...scene in which an obsessive woman visits a killer in jail and expresses her sympathy for him. The first and lesser of the pair is from Kim Ki-duk, who came to international prominence with The Isle (or, as aficionados describe it, the erotic fish-hook movie) and has ben paring down his style ever since, in Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall and Spring Again and the near-wordless 3-Iron. His new film is more conventional, not so rewarding. Yeon (the actress Zia) switches her affection from her faithless husband to a condemned killer (Taiwanese star Chang Chen) who keeps...
...project that is under construction in downtown Singapore. "Lexus could be the most well-made car out there, but it will never be as attractive as a Mercedes or BMW." This ambivalence is perhaps heightened by Singapore's unprepossessing cityscape. Many great metropolises have icons and landmarks like Big Ben or the Chrysler Building. The only physical attributes associated with Singapore are its statues of "merlions," a chimera with a lion's head and fish's body that was invented by the tourism board for a 1964 marketing campaign...
...overlooked one of cinema's most menacing villains: Sir Ben Kingsley. (Who would think it?) His character in Sexy Beast (2000) scares even the film's other villains. His last line is composed of not words but an unforgettable, goose-bump-producing, maniacal laugh. Hear it once, and you won't forget. Terry Lorbiecki, Milwaukee...