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...fervent resolution. Bernal isn't the hunky, smoldering Che; he's the thoughtful, awkward Ernesto - and he's splendid, though he doesn't radiate a potent sensuality the way he did as a scheming transvestite in Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education. Instead, his Guevara is all goofy charm and dissolving innocence (more like his character in 2001's Y Tu Mamá También, but without the sex). His weapon is his wide, crooked smile. It's disarming and endearing, and as Guevara's carefree escapade turns into something far more significant, it proves an excellent tension...
With its third entry, Scion seems to have grown up fast. The Scion tC is a sporty coupe that looks more at home in the Toyota garage than parked beside its quirky siblings. Low-slung and squat, it lacks the xA's dimple-cheeked charm or xB's sass. Cruising around Los Angeles in a black-cherry model with optional $995 "ground effects" (attachments to make the car appear lower), I patiently waited for a thumbs-up. Five days later, not even the dude driving a flame-surfaced xB had looked...
...Phyllis always had a theatrical energy - no great-lady airs; rather, a practical charm, an energetic poise that could make any impromptu sentence as persuasive as a speech from a Philip Barry comedy. At the time of her marriage to Kirkland, she was parading it on stage, ?appearing in summer stock in New England,? the Sun obit observes, ?as well as pre-Broadway engagements of more ambitious plays.? The Missing in Action Website, which highlights female pioneers in TV production, reports that Phyllis ?showed her maverick nature by traveling war-torn Europe in a USO tour of Noel Coward...
...water polo program in a state of upheaval, the third time had better be the charm...
Anyone who saw Shrek 2 and wondered how to cash in on the ogre's box-office charm will soon have a chance. DreamWorks SKG, the studio behind the billion-dollar Shrek franchise, announced that it plans to spin off its animation division in an initial public offering (IPO) to raise at least $650 million. DreamWorks Animation, as the new company will be called, intends to ramp up production with the release of two computer-animated films a year and needs the capital to help finance the movies and tackle archrival Pixar, which keeps raising the bar with hits like...