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...Owen Wilson, 35, have resuscitated the concept, playing off each other in a series of six simultaneously smart and stupid films, including The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander and Meet the Parents. Stiller, whose parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara were a comedy team in the '60s and '70s, updates Lou Costello with an agitated everyman, while Wilson does the smartest dumb guy ever, thanks to a slacker knowingness...
...year, Hodel had played in every game, earned a starting role, scored her first collegiate goal and been voted captain by her teammates. In the process, she had grown especially close to the class of 2002. Following her election, she sat down to talk with outgoing co-captains Caitlin Costello and Colleen Moore. The conversation still affects Hodel’s approach to leadership today...
...Year” by Esquire, is very engaged in his characters. This was clearly evident at the reading; he eagerly mimicked the dull hulk of a schoolyard bully; he let the squeak of a scared submissive jump from his lips. Clad in tight jeans, a bright yellow shirt and Costello glasses, Lethem was as colorful as his characters themselves...
There's no point looking to Coetzee for clarification. He failed to show up for his Booker award ceremonies, and who knows whether he'll show up in Stockholm on Dec. 10 for his Nobel. The protagonist of his latest novel, Elizabeth Costello, herself a postmodern novelist, might offer some clues as to his thoughts. On being picked for a literary prize, she says, "I should have asked them to forget the ceremony and send the check in the mail...
...newspapers claim? There's no point looking to Coetzee for clarification. He failed to show up for both of his Booker ceremonies, and who knows whether he will show up in Stockholm on Dec. 10 to collect his Nobel. When the novelist-heroine of his latest book, Elizabeth Costello, is picked for a prestigious literary prize, she says: "I should have asked them to forget the ceremony and send the check in the mail...