Word: cliches
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Screenwriter James DeMonaco peoples the precinct with a Grand Hotel's worth of character clich??s: the grizzled patrolman (Brian Dennehy) who's ready to retire; the woman cop (Drea de Matteo) who can out-tough the macho men; the motormouth con (John Leguizamo) who sees ways of escape in the encroaching anarchy. This bunch could start a brawl in a bus line. But they need to become a community fast to fight an enemy whose siege tactics are as unfathomable as they are unstoppable...
Unscripted is far better done than K Street, maybe because its "real" people--actors like Hank Azaria and Bonnie Hunt, directors like Garry Marshall and Sam Mendes--are used to Hollywood fakery. It does, however, dip into show-biz-is-a-bummer clich??s, especially with Jen and Bryan. One story line has another actor horning in on Bryan's auditions, a plot recently explored on NBC's Joey--not the kind of comparison HBO generally angles...
...Taha takes his own advice very much to heart. "I've understood that if we bend to the clichés and roles society assigns us, we'll never progress, never integrate, never really learn from each other," he says. "In a way, I guess I've become so integrated I can now stand apart and do things my way." Like rocking the Casbah - in Arabic...
...John Dransfield of the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) at Kew in the U.K., "we are discovering new species at an astounding rate." Many, like the now-famous rosy periwinkle, a source of compounds used to treat leukemia and Hodgkin's disease, have huge medicinal potential. "It has become a cliché to describe Madagascar as a Noah's Ark," says Dransfield, "but it's true. If we lose Madagascar, we lose an irreplaceable asset." Conservationists are fighting hard to preserve what's left of Madagascar's biodiversity. Not far from the SNGF, the Horticultural Technology Center (CTHA) is propagating rare...
...MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Attack of the Clichés The phrase "at the end of the day" topped a poll of the most irritating clichés in the English language. The poll, conducted by the Plain English Campaign among its 5,000 supporters, identified other terms deemed past their sell-by date: "to be honest," "like" and "thinking outside the box." Fortunately for the unimaginative - and headline writers the world over - some old favorites escaped sanction. There's light at the end of the tunnel, after...