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...support Sandra Bullock (Miss Congeniality) and Madonna (The Next Best Thing). But virtually no one realized he had this kind of performance in him. "For the last couple of months, I've been getting a lot of backhanded compliments, but it still feels good," says Bratt, who learned to chain-smoke for the part and immersed himself in the culture of the Lower East Side neighborhood where Pinero lived...
...with his solid reviews in Ali helping cement his reputation as a Serious Actor, Foxx is dreaming large. "If I were to ever win an Oscar," he says, "I'd have a gold chain with the Oscar on my neck everywhere I went...
...last summer to conclude there was something rotten at Enron. The numbers didn't add up. A pair of letters that she wrote to Chairman Kenneth Lay exposed top officials--perhaps including Lay himself--who for months had been trying to hide a mountain of debt, and started a chain reaction of events that brought down the company. Watkins' letters, along with thousands of other documents, are now in the hands of congressional and criminal investigators who are probing how Enron, its pet-rock auditors at Andersen and a host of other supporting actors allowed the country's seventh largest...
...cubicles, at both companies. And she may well have written it purely to cover herself, to protect that resume when the inevitable happened - the "CYA" letter is as old as business itself. But because she got a reaction - made sure she got a reaction - she did start a daisy chain of provable what-they-knew-and-when-they-knew-it that has now put investigators on a pretty pungent and promising trail...
...have gone, it’s all very inconvenient,” says one local resident, who only goes by the name “Valentine.” The “smoke store” he used to shop at, for example, has been sacrificed for a chain store. “Now I need to go to Boston or even New Hampshire to get cigars,” he says. “It’s not that hometown community it was any more...