Word: cool
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Most useless hero: Emma. Seeing sound as colors is kind of a cool effect, but we wish she could have done something interesting with it this week...
...more about getting upstairs (if you can imagine). That means they're either moving back up against the wall or turning into more-compact switchbacks. The two-story foyer is becoming less and less popular too - in an era of tighter purse strings, who wants to heat and cool all that empty space? "Would you rather have the extra volume or a game room upstairs?" asks Ken Gancarczyk, a senior vice president at KB Home who runs the Los Angeles-based builder's architecture group. Buyers, KB is finding, want the room...
...three couples: Phil (Ty Burrell) and Claire (Julie Bowen), overscheduled and driven by competing parenting impulses. She wants to compensate for her wild childhood. "If Haley never wakes up on a beach in Florida half-naked," she says, "I've done my job." He wants desperately to be cool, mortifying his kids by memorizing every dance move in High School Musical and asserting his (faulty) knowledge of text-message-speak ("WTF: 'Why the Face...
America is the land of second acts, but still, a gay former child actor who loves magic isn't supposed to return as an icon of cool masculinity. Yet at 36, Neil Patrick Harris, who played a genius teenage doctor on Doogie Howser, M.D., has used rat-pack swagger to climb the hosting rope in record time, from emceeing the TV Land awards in April to the Tonys in June to the Emmys on Sept. 20. He's up for his own Emmy this year for his role as an over-the-top straight guy in the CBS sitcom...
...from black-and-white to flaming Technicolor for the first time.At the end of “Losin’ Yo’ Head,” there’s a brief studio dialogue between the Monsters. Someone says “That’s pretty cool,” and the others mutter their bemused agreement. Ultimately, that attitude of “wouldn’t-it-be-cool-if” leads to some generally good but poorly executed ideas that pale significantly in contrast to the album’s several standout tracks...