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...anxiety about the casting of an American as Britain's favorite wounded bird of the '90s vanishes. (Hey, if Vivien Leigh could play Scarlett O'Hara...) She fits in, and stands out, perfectly. And as the plot of Bridget Jones's Diary ripens, and two handsome men--rapacious Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and dull Mark Darcy (Colin Firth)--tumble vagrantly into her heart, Zellweger reveals, as in a soul's striptease, Bridget's appeal. Inside this "verbally incontinent spinster" (as Darcy calls her), a brilliant vamp is aching to be set free...
...Prejudice. Like Elizabeth Bennett, Bridget is initially put off by the alluring yet aloof Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), a recently divorced and fantastically wealthy human rights barrister that everyone is trying to set her up with; instead, she finds herself falling for her rakish, yet caddishly womanizing boss Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). In her romantic and dietary pursuits, she bumbles and humiliates herself in scene after scene, endures the company of officious “smug marrieds” with the help of her singleton friends Shazzer, Jude and Tom, and puts up with her middling and flighty mother before...
Following his turn as the villain in Woody Allen’s Small Time Crooks, Grant is caddishly handsome as Bridget’s Cleaver, who is given sounder treatment in the movie than in the novel. Whether slyly flirting over office e-mail or whispering dirty names to his conquest, Grant displays his inner rogue with a sort of sleazy charm that seems to suit him much more than his previous “oopsy-daisy” roles as an inarticulate romantic with foppish hair...
...then there's the moral component, which they were just talking about on "The Sopranos" (suffice it to say the scene involved a gambling butcher, his pinky finger and a meat cleaver): Honor your debts. Critics of the bill contend that often, credit card companies' "predatory lending practices" lure unsuspecting borrowers into debts they can't afford - and therefore the credit card companies should take the lumps with the risk...
...Hwan seizes the wooden handle of the meat cleaver with a beefy right hand, raising the 21-cm blade up and back past his ear. His left pinkie is on the table, pressed against the edge of a wooden board covered in white cloth; the rounded, stubby finger is missing the last joint. "You put your pinkie on the board and chop it real hard," he says, swinging the blade down fast to within a few millimeters of his stump. "If you miss you can cut parts of other fingers." Gently placing the knife and board into a cardboard...