Word: cousin
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...best way to round out this or that perception of Mr. Personality is to just walk up to him and say hello. You’ll notice the charm and smile at the wit. And once you’ve dug yourself into conversations about his cute baby cousin or his gut, named Joe, you’ll realize that it’s actually pretty easy to talk to this somebody who just might be somebody someday...
...Wilkinson so gracefully manage most of the movie's heaviest lifting. But they have always been predictably expert actors. Tomei's career path is radically different. She came out of nowhere to win the supporting-actress Oscar, over more prestigious competitors, for her hilarious work in 1992's My Cousin Vinny. Then, and just as suddenly, she swooned into off-Broadway plays and smallish roles in obscure films, where she also gained a reputation as "difficult." Now she's back, and damned if people aren't talking Oscar nomination again...
...upend a few boxes.” Egan’s tone shifts, often humorously, to reflect the personality of the character on whose behalf she writes, as when Charlotte talks of New York nightclubs in which “mere unhappiness was about as welcome as an overweight cousin from New Jersey...
Frankie confesses that his true love is the trumpet, but he’s parlayed his general largesse into a meaty flugelhorn sound that he alternates with its higher register cousin. Sometimes switching up horns mid-piece, Frankie maintained striking speed and agility with the flugelhorn, showing a dexterity not normally found on the instrument. While finger-crunching runs are usually the trumpet’s domain, Frankie managed to translate those abilities to the flugel while covering Stevie Wonder’s “Another Star” from Songs in the Key of Life. Without Wonder?...
Naoemi Gullickson was late getting home last Thursday, and her daughter Amanda, 3, gazed anxiously out the front window of their Staten Island apartment. A newly nervous child, she turned to the cousin taking care of her and asked, "Is Mommy in heaven now too?" The question was brutally reasonable. Amanda's father, New York City fire department Lieutenant Joseph Gullickson, was killed on Sept. 11 at the World Trade Center. Then last week her grandfather Jose A. Perez died aboard American Airlines Flight 587. The little girl can't help fretting: Who in her family will be next...