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...diners, we went to greasy spoons, we went to falafel places. It was really down and dirty. I was broke, too. I had no money at all. I was at NYU, putting myself through school, working like four jobs. So mostly it was just cup of coffee, glass of cheap wine. I still can't drink red wine. I can never drink it again, because it was just cheap red wine. I had a hangover for probably a whole year...
Tragically, beyond simply honoring King, several orators used the forum as an excuse to take pot shots at President Bush, who sat in attendance. In so doing, they upstaged an event that was intended to celebrate both an exemplary life and its legacy solely as a means to score cheap, political points...
...bench for the next five minutes with a zero in the column he did need and a two in the one he didn’t. If this night was to be a celebration of Stehle’s career, it would be almost fitting that cheap fouls played a key role.“I picked up two dumb fouls,” Stehle said. “Typical me.”With its captain gone, the Crimson struggled to score points, as senior center Brian Cusworth missed a number of finishes from close range, while junior guard...
...foreign audiences to queue round the block. "France's sense of humor and comedies just don't seem to globalize," says Leconte, "unless the Americans decide to remake them." Les Bronzés in particular, Jugnot adds, is an inside joke "about how we French are ugly, mean and cheap." That's a good reason why Les Bronzés will probably remain pop heroes only their countrymen can love...
...Oscar this year, cheap is chic. Four of the five films nominated for Best Picture cost under $15 million to make, less than a fifth of the average Hollywood budget. Of them, the very cheapest was Crash, which cost $6.5 million and earned six Oscar nods, including three for writer-director-producer Paul Haggis. Yet the film's domestic box-office total ($56 million) was higher than that of any of its laureled rivals when the nominations came out last Tuesday...