Word: dices
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...audience. "Before that," he says, "there were a lot of problems when we were trying to shoot in Vegas. The executives at the casinos were afraid to show dead bodies." (Partly for budgetary reasons, the scripted Vegas series still shoot mostly in L.A.) Now even cartoonists are rolling the dice: this fall NBC launches Father of the Pride, a computer-animated series from the makers of Shrek, about a family of lions in Siegfried & Roy's Mirage Resort revue. (Fortunately for NBC, it was, ahem, a tiger that severely mauled Roy Horn last fall...
...lovers remain entombed together in the monastery in Alcobaça, but the spot in Santa Clara is a shrine to their sad, eternal love. The gracious 54-room hotel, with its fine restaurant, occupies a converted 18th century manor house owned by José Miguel Júdice, a direct descendant of Pedro and Inês. Its dark trees evoke the memory of Dona...
...they've already been humbled mightily since "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" flamed out a few years ago, but there must be some depth of disgrace - behind UPN! behind Pax! behind Trio! - at which the failure becomes liberating. When anything goes. When the network decides to roll the dice and unleash the weirdest crap that's ever been seen on broadcast TV, because, well, why not? A drama about the rough-and-tumble world of professional plumbing inspectors! A reality show about dogs - directed and produced by dogs! A family sitcom by the guy who just made a movie...
...dice. Bush essentially told them to take a hike...
When political ambition coincides with popular disillusion, the mix can be combustible. And so it proved last week in the mean streets of Sadr City, a neighborhood filled with poor, disgruntled Shi'ites, when the young rabble-rousing cleric decided to roll the dice. Since the day a year ago when U.S. soldiers pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein, symbolizing the regime's fall, al-Sadr has railed against the American occupation. He built up a network of civilian supporters and recruited fighters for his Mahdi Army, named for the 12th, or Hidden, Imam, whom Shi'ites believe will...