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...Anheuser-Busch. He has worked fervently to outlaw all abortions unless the mother's life is at risk, and yet his website touts his record and priorities as Governor and Senator and makes no mention whatsoever of abortion. What do you make of a man who is caricatured as Cotton Mather but who is known among his friends for his gospel singing, piano playing, his love of dirt bikes and his ability to spear a carp on a 12-ft. pole? What do you make of a man who has in his barn a 7-ft. statue he crafted...
...When it comes to making an epic action film, Zhang evidently felt: Why have cotton when you can have silk? The unprecedented collection of talent at work on this project reads like an A-to-Z list of the region's most beautiful, bankable and influential. Besides the stellar leads, Hong Kong actor/director Donnie Yen, the high-flying martial artist known for his rhythmic, graceful style, pits his gravity-defying leaps against Li in a scene that will have kung fu fans roaring for more. Working in three languages (Mandarin, Cantonese and English) and vastly different styles, these actors helped...
...traps. There weren't any. Eventually, we got to the Emir's bedroom. It was covered by about three feet of emptied jewelry boxes. Everything had been taken - the refrigerated cabinets to hold the furs were empty. The only thing the Iraqis didn't take were a bunch of cotton bags: the Emir had the biggest stash of pot we'd ever seen...
Three cons (Clooney, Turturro and Nelson) are on the lam in '30s Mississippi. A blind prophet intones, "You shall see a cow on top of a cotton bale, and many other startlements." Startlements are indeed in store: a one-eyed, toad-squishing salesman (Goodman); three maidens washing their laundry in a stream. These, and the name of the bombastic schemer Clooney plays--Everett Ulysses McGill--should be sufficient clues to identify the film's source: "Based on The Odyssey by Homer...
...beauty from the next town over in North Carolina--knocked him back on his heels. "I think it might have been at a church social," he says, 59 now and dusted at the temples. Harry courted her with the little time he didn't spend working the tobacco and cotton fields his family farmed: "We wrote to each other when I went away in the service. She was my military sweetheart...