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...DIVORCE. Two of Hollywood’s hottest actresses team up in this romantic comedy with raunchy, satirical underpinnings. Naomi Watts stars as Roxanne, a just-divorced Parisian (and pregnant no less). Isabel, played by Kate Hudson, arrives to cheer up her distraught, hormone-addled stepsister. Both drop their worries and emotional baggage, living it up and enjoying the French nightlife. Romantic implications are obvious. Watch this Hollywood-French-farce hybrid for its bedroom humor, international wisecracks, and romance. Le Divorce screens 12:45, 3:45, 7:00, and 9:45 p.m. on Friday, August...
...know we've changed when we see a show called Straight Eye for the Gay Guy. In it a group of heterosexual men prep a gay man for the night he asks his boyfriend to marry him. When the boyfriend says yes, the straight guys cheer, and the gay guy chokes up. That will be the day gay people are no longer ornaments or accessories or objects of either derision or compassion. That will be the day gay people will finally have the description we have been seeking for so long: human beings...
Letting Cutler show her this way was a risk, but it pays off. Reformed or not, she's still funny, and you cheer for her out of the sheer force of her will to fame. And Barr says the show finds her "trying to be nice. Then you see me screw up all the time. I'm showing I'm the best example of a really horrible person who has changed...
Just as Dallas Mavericks fans cheer for Dirk Nowitzki (German) and Steve Nash (Canadian), so Madrilenos and Mancunians don't give a hoot about the nationality of a star, so long as he is playing for Real or United. That's indicative of a larger trend. In social matters, Europeans every day are becoming more "European" and less hidebound by national traditions--they worship the same sports stars, they drink the same wines, they dance to the same electronic beats, they vacation on the same beaches. Things go wrong only when attempts are made to craft European institutions...
...Clearly, there wasn't much for affirmative action opponents to cheer about. "A disaster," said Edward Blum, a senior fellow at the Center for Equal Opportunity, which had a filed a brief in the case opposing affirmative action...