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...What's this big mystery around your character? O.K., I'll tell you. We're going to find out at the end of the season that her name is Adriana Le Cerva, and I've been on the lam. It's the only show that can probably get away with that giant sense of humor thing...
Meatballs thus becomes the year's seventh film and its first animated feature to spend two weekends at the top of the box office. None of the other repeaters - Paul Blart: Mall Cop in January, Madea Goes to Jail in February and, over the big summer season, Night at the Museum 2, The Hangover, Transformers 2 and Final Destination 4 - are likely to earn a slot on the newly expanded, 10-title list of Oscar nominations for Best Picture. Nor did any of them except The Hangover earn money-quote lines from the critical establishment. But they underline the importance...
...fact that people are staying single for longer but still want to buy homes, and there's a whole new taste afoot - Santa Barbara-based B3 Architects is building a series of 800-square-footers. "The big-box house is no longer the market," says Charles Shinn, principal of the builder consultancy Shinn Consulting in Littleton, Colo...
...issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, both the size and the consumption habits of our eating companions can influence our food intake. And contrary to existing research that says you should steer clear of eating with heavier people who order large portions, it's the beanpoles with the big appetites you really need to avoid. "They're big trouble," says Gavan Fitzsimons, a marketing professor at Duke's Fuqua School of Business and one of the study's co-authors...
...However, the subjects took significantly higher portions when the actor was thin. During the movie - a five-minute clip from the Will Smith film I, Robot - they also ate significantly more if the actor was skinny. "It's our intuition sometimes that you don't want to eat with big people because you're afraid you'll eat more," says Fitzsimons. "In fact, the opposite is true." (See how hula hoops can help you lose weight...