Word: cupfuls
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...Pacino played father and son in The Godfather Part II but never shared a scene. In the 1995 Heat they spent nearly three hours in the same movie - with De Niro running a heist gang and Pacino as the pursuing cop - but their only encounters were, literally, a cup of coffee and a shootout. So there ought to be a little want-see attending Righteous Kill, a police suspenser where the two stars are finally together for a whole film...
Soccer's world governing body FIFA pays no heed to historical enmities or geopolitical feuds in the draw for the World Cup qualifying tournament; only seedings count. That's how South Korea ended up facing the diplomatically sensitive challenge of having to beat North Korea in order to secure one of the 32 places at World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Even more potentially volatile was the May 31 match-up between Sudan and Chad - FIFA postponed that one indefinitely, because the two countries were on the brink of war. (A World Cup qualifier in which El Salvador beat Honduras...
...hard to know. There's always an upswell of British pride before the World Cup. Everyone gets really excited about the British team, but then they always lose and then everyone gets bitter and angry and denounces them for letting down the entire country. What's happened until now is the Londoners have grumbled repeatedly about how annoying it's going to be to have the Olympics here. "Costs overruns are enormous, the traffic is going to be terrible, they'll never figure it out." All of a sudden, there's a little surge of pride and people are saying...
...about the sex in the book? I was reminded of something you said about Prep, that it might not be your parents' cup of tea for various reasons, and the graphic sex was part of that. It's quite a visual, the sex in American Wife...
...Some purists argue that the modern rugby codes would be better for having less power. But that's not the way the games are going anywhere. For Australasian football, the future is with youngsters like Penese and Isa. By the time the 2011 Rugby Union World Cup, to be played in New Zealand, rolls around, both codes will have evolved a little more toward cosmopolitanism. Neither code can turn back - and few fans or players would want them...