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...Sweet Home Alabama, a romantic comedy opening this week, Reese Witherspoon plays a Manhattan fashion designer who returns to her rural hometown to get a divorce from her high school sweetheart. She does not, however, fake her own death as a joke. She does not, while drunk in a honky-tonk, make a crude reference to oral sex. All that was cut because the studio was worried that the heroine of Sweet Home Alabama wouldn't seem sweet enough...
...Friends don’t let friends drive drunk,” Ritter said. “And I’m going to tell [the British] that we have a drunk at the wheel of American foreign policy...
Your decorating philosophy: Cover my room in stuff that will scare me when I wake up in the middle of the night drunk and unsure of where I am. Also, use duct tape to make giant dollar signs on all the windows...
...believe the U.S. call for military action - and the British response to that call - is a thinly veiled response to threats on oil supplies. Labour MP Alan Simpson told the Belfast News Letter, "Sadly, I think Bush will hit Iraq in much the same way that a drunk will hit a bottle. He needs to satisfy his thirst for power and oil." Simpson then dismissed Blair's report as "deeply flawed, partial and superficial," according to the paper...
...Obvious rule number 5: [The audience] needs to care about your characters." One of Ayckbourn's great gifts is the ability to create people whose flaws are both maddening and charming. Best of all is the boyfriend's mother in RolePlay, superbly performed by Jacqueline King. Perpetually drunk, she mortifies everyone with alcohol-drenched insults. Yet among the hypocritical company, her honesty is refreshing. Which brings us to Rule No. 54: "Casting is everything." Ayckbourn's ensemble is uniformly fabulous. In particular Alison Pargeter moves from sniveling schoolgirl through Bridget Jones-style lonelyheart to damaged woman, impressive in each incarnation...