Word: connor
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Austin resident Anne Connor said the decision to cast her vote will come down to the issue of abortion and which candidate will decide new members of the Supreme Court...
...Harold Ramis, is quite close in silhouette to the Peter Cook-Dudley Moore Bedazzled of 1967--with the petty distinction that the old film was funny, the new one mostly not. A lonely dweeb (Brendan Fraser) is so desperate to win the affections of a co-worker (Frances O'Connor) that he signs a pact with the Horned One (Elizabeth Hurley) that offers him seven shots at ecstasy for his puny little soul. Alas, the skitcom format soon becomes tiresome; comic inventiveness should have been Ramis' first wish...
...that lovely commodity, a big man with physical grace and an underdog charm. He's drollest in his early scenes as the consummate loser with a coprophagous grin--a character perilously close to Rob Schneider's needy-nerdy copy-machine guy on Saturday Night Live years ago. (Similarly, O'Connor looks so much like the younger Kathie Lee Gifford that she could be accused of face-lifting.) Hurley slinks through her role with the purr and swagger of a dominatrix in the Profumo years. Her lithe body has the sexy lines that are often missing from the script of this...
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...there are sparks of life once again. In 1991 LeBar and some underemployed colleagues performed a television exorcism on ABC's 20/20. So many viewers called in to request similar aid that the late John Cardinal O'Connor of New York appointed four archdiocesan exorcists. In an average year, they investigate some 350 cases and perform 10 to 15 exorcisms. Last year Chicago's Francis Cardinal George appointed the first official exorcist in his diocese's 160-year history. Several months earlier, the Vatican had revised the Rite of Exorcism. It eliminated physical descriptions of Satan and such honorifics...