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...might say the same about Calendar Girls, which more or less truly tells the story of some middle-aged Yorkshire ladies who posed discreetly nude--flowerpots and craft projects cover the Xrated areas--to sell calendars for charity. They're believably edgy about stripping--maybe the camera won't see all, but what about that cameraman? And the likes of Helen Mirren and Julie Walters are good-looking good sports about all this. But the movie is not so much about getting naked as getting (briefly) famous. Easily predicted life lessons are learned when their calendar becomes a multinational media...
...that’s what’s great about the Kronauer setting. This is a place where people perhaps take themselves too seriously, but at lest that means they’ll probably keep honing their craft. A play is at its most exciting when you get the feeling that its cast, its crew and its writer are only going to improve with...
...HONE YOUR CRAFT, DID YOU MAKE FACES IN THE BATHROOM MIRROR...
...general Tom Reilly, a Democrat who may run for Governor in 2006, is hoping the court will accept some kind of civil-union legislation. "This ruling is just not clear [on what kind of remedy it requires]," he says. Maybe. It was a narrow ruling, so the legislature might craft a solution so nuanced that it lures one of the four majority judges to the other side. Most legal scholars think the court won't be satisfied with anything short of same-sex marriages...
...ready for Europe, that we are real Europeans." Breaking up individual operations is one thing, Borissov concedes. Stamping out the problem altogether is something else. The counterfeit networks operating in Europe are highly decentralized, police believe. Financiers who place the orders, printers who make the notes, finish artists who craft security threads and watermarks, distributors who smuggle the fake money into the E.U. - all operate independently of each other. Moreover, each task is often carried out by a single ethnic group, making infiltration extremely difficult. One operation in Serbia relied on Croatian printers, Slovenian paper, Bulgarian computer graphics and Albanian...