Word: careers
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...success is measured only in how much your movie needs you, Cera has reached the peak of his career to date with Year One, a comedy set in biblical times. By playing once again the sweet, stammering smart guy, although this time in a Spinal Tap wig and caveman furs, Cera can't stop Year One from being a bad movie, but he does save it from being a catastrophe. He plays Oh, an inept gatherer who is best friends with an even more inept hunter named Zed (Jack Black). They're kicked out of their village - the wisest...
...Owned Las Vegas' first 24-hour veterinary clinic and managed hotels before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994. His political career was boosted by his well-connected stepfather, Michael Ensign, who ran the powerful Mandalay Resort Group...
...life and times of a pastry chef (Dalia Jurgensen's Spiced) - naughtier than you'd expect - but the best of them by a mile is by a former chef of no particular distinction named Jason Sheehan, now an extraordinarily good food writer. Cooking Dirty is his account of a career spent largely at what he calls "the low end of the culinary world": late-night shifts at diners, bars and neighborhood joints. Some of it is pure drudgery - like prepping a "literal ton of corned-beef briskets" at an Irish pub the week before St. Patrick's Day - but when...
...genial but refined way, Federer has spent a career making the extremely difficult look easy, whether it be winning tennis matches or the admiration of fellow athletes. In 2004, when Blake broke his neck during a practice session at a tournament in Rome, the American ended up alone in a hospital, cared for by people speaking a language he didn't understand. The one note of support from a fellow player he received came from Federer. "I had only played him two or three times," Blake says. "But he was thinking of me, and knowing I was alone...
...pursuit of perfection paradoxically requires a career spent obsessing over one's faults. Unusually for tennis players, Federer has spent most of his career without a coach, analyzing his own game and making changes himself, such as adding a deft drop volley at the French Open that was designed to counter Nadal and other clay-court specialists. "Of all the things that make him great, perhaps the least appreciated is his ability to reflect on his game and make changes," said retired American doubles great Peter Fleming. Complacency is impossible for Federer, as he explained after his Paris victory...