Word: cousin
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...group of similarly accused corporate giants have decided to raise the white flag. The result: That coveted CD of Britney Spears' warblings will now be $2 to $5 cheaper at a music store near you. The music biz's Big Five - Sony, Bertelsmann, EMI, Universal and Time Warner (corporate cousin to this web site) - which control 85 percent of the $15 billion CD market, settled with the FTC Wednesday on charges that they've been leaning for years on music retailers to fix CD prices by threatening to withhold promotional budgets from stores that don't adhere...
...Gonzalez household, so crowded with hangers-on it resembled the Marx Brothers' stateroom in A Night at the Opera, Marisleysis burnished his image as the heroic fisherman who saved Elian. As it turns out, he's a housecleaner who has been so hungry for the limelight that his cousin, the veteran seaman on the boat, has vowed never to see him again...
Crowe could be a nicer fellow but hardly a better actor. His Maximus is a cousin to the haunted Wigand, a powerful man troubled by the things he has to do. It is a delicate, indelible portrait. To Gladiator, a film in need of a star and a working-class hero, Crowe brings strength and honor...
...situational comedy, far more sophisticated than virtually any other comedy that hits the big screens nowadays. Allen always manages to avoid carboard characters - even when they actually are one note jokes. Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite, Jennifer Tilly in Bullets Over Broadway, and now Elaine May as Frenchy's cousin in Small Time Crooks - the bumbling, doltish female in these films does little more than spout inane observations, but they manage to be endearing, sympathetic, _almost_ knowable. In this case, the comedy is more obvious, but all of Woody's characters in Small Time Crooks are lovable even when they...
...they did, in their midst. Hit by storms, low on food and water, even attacked by a killer whale, the men began dying and the survivors ate the remains. Pollard's 18-year-old cousin was sacrificed after a drawing of lots. When they were rescued, after three months adrift, only eight of the Essex's 21 men were alive...