Word: bothers
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...studios bother with prima donnas like Cruise and stick with the reliables, the stars of hit comedies? All this millennium, Adam Sandler has made medium-budget blockbusters, grossing more than $100 million at the domestic box office six years in a row. Jim Carrey can be huge in the right project. Will Ferrell has become a major deliverer. Talladega Nights, if it keeps on motoring at its turbo pace, could end up one of the top five grossers of the year (after Pirates of the Caribbean 2, Cars, X-Men III and The Da Vinci Code); and it was made...
...seniors, who are at special risk in hot weather--in Philadelphia; Phoenix, Ariz.; Toronto; and Dayton, Ohio. He found that less than half of people 65 and older abide by heat-emergency recommendations like drinking lots of water. Reason: they don't consider themselves seniors. "Heat doesn't bother me much, but I worry about my neighbors," said an older respondent...
...down on fear and embarrassment and disappointment, but you can never quite go cold turkey. "The double bind, the problem of consciousness mixed with nothingness, never goes away," Franzen writes in The Discomfort Zone. And he never does find that owl. But somehow it doesn't really bother him. "Much of bird watching is about disappointment," he says. "Part of the appeal is that really, more often than not, you don't see what you're looking for. The great pursuits are more about failure than about success...
...with a little lovemaking thrown in, taking place in one small hotel room over the course of a few short hours. There is - utterly, totally, completely - no reason to show "Man" (Aaron Eckhart) and "Woman" (Helena Bonham Carter) in anything but conventional movie terms. I mean, why would you bother to split the screen when they are basically standing (or occasionally lying) next to one another in cramped quarters...
...Darnum's small congregations don't bother lay preacher John Watson, 73, who addresses tinier ones in neighboring towns and isn't one to agonize about making his sermons electrifying. "I'm what I'd call an expository preacher," says Watson, who came to Australia 54 years ago from Northern Ireland. He demands of himself only that he be prepared for each service: "if you don't prepare," he says, quoting Protestant preacher Ian Paisley, "soon you'll be preaching to Mrs. Wood and Timothy Timber...