Word: charming
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...that a Southern California VA hospital is a suitable location for filming a Rob Zombie movie. The much tattooed 42-year-old director's last effort, the mordantly witty 2005 horror pic The Devil's Rejects, revealed the metal singer/director's knack for coaxing a certain grisly charm out of his homicidal antiheroes and evoking an unexpected creepiness out of the sun-bleached California desert. Now the horror auteur is taking a stab at Michael Myers, the masked psychopath from John Carpenter's 1978 Halloween, which Zombie is retooling for an August release...
...promoter as "a huge pain in the ass." Pit him against the sport's last glamour boy, Oscar De La Hoya, 34, bred tough in East L.A. but now a clean-cut corporate sweetheart whose broad, boyish smile has made millions swoon into his corner. Naturally, his charm has also turned off others who would love a guy like Mayweather to coldcock that grin off his face. De La Hoya, an Olympic gold medalist who has won titles in six weight classes, is the aging underdog. He could be building his burgeoning real estate and publishing careers, but he needs...
...let’s give it a shot, it’d be kind of cool.’ As we get closer, people started really to think about it, to work hard.”But hard work in the spring may mean nothing without the additional charm of size and career statistics.Defensive tackle Mike Berg had one of the stronger seasons, posting 47 tackles and 8.5 sacks for 62 lost yards despite being double-teamed nearly every Saturday. But Berg runs into the recurring problem of size. At 6’2 and 265 pounds, teams worry...
...charm of these images lies precisely in such imperfections: light leakages, unplanned compositions, flaws in focus and inadvertent exposures create an accidental art and a welcome change from the sometimes sterile domain of conventional fine-art photography. In fact, the pictures are so enchanting that you almost wish the publishers had reproduced them in larger than actual size. But it's a minor complaint, given the book's beauty. This "anthropology of the ordinary," as the authors put it, is nothing short of remarkable...
...Olmert is already in a political muddle, and another potentially inconclusive assault in Gaza won't help. A major ground offensive at this moment would not help the Israeli Prime Minister's fortunes. Olmert will need to focus all of his boisterous charm next week just to keep his government from crumbling. Additionally, an inquiry into Israel's messy summer 2006 war in Lebanon is due out on Monday, and it is expected to lambaste Olmert and his novice Defense Minister Amir Peretz. Furthermore, the danger exists that militants could retaliate by executing the captive Israeli soldier...