Word: earnestly
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Influence, though earnest and enjoyable, could use more of Christie's even-handed objectivity. For instance, the documentary praises Easy Rider (actually a 1969 film) for drawing in a new audience that had been staying away from the movies. But when Star Wars does the same thing, it's pandering to escapist sheep easily led by movie marketers. And the scope is both comprehensive and frustratingly limited, focusing on critics' darlings while Rocky, Superman and the like get barely a sneer...
...brainchild of songwriters Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, Avenue Q is the kind of place where the word of the day is schadenfreude and five nightstands rearrange themselves into a "one-night stand." Instead of spelling bees and ABCs, the characters, including Princeton, an earnest, clean-cut college grad, and his sometime girlfriend Kate Monster, a kindergarten aide, confront such grownup issues as unemployment, sex and the rent...
...cashing in on fire-cleared parcels. Once the fire has done its work, the development gallops on. As France's fires ebbed late last week, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy promised more money for prevention and a special conference on the issue. Helene Véret has heard such earnest declarations before. The last big blaze to ravage their place, in 1990, turned a beloved 300-year-old umbrella pine into a stump. The Vérets made the best of it, using it as a natural bench for taking in the stunning view of the coast. This fire obliterated...
...Knightley. During the meal, Verbinski recalls, "I just kept looking at them across the table and thought, 'This could work.'" It does - on several levels. Bloom and Knightley make a sweet - and so gorgeous - couple. And Pirates gave Bloom the chance to work with his hero, playing the earnest straight man to Depp's camp, wisecracking swashbuckler: "I can guarantee any actor my age would say Johnny Depp is the guy." Bloom also recognized this as more than just his biggest part so far in a major movie. "I talked to my manager," he says, "about the fact that Pirates...
...into fun and festivity with unprecedented zeal. Each weekend, central London is one great bacchanal. Cities that for reasons of politics or religion were once gloomily repressive--Madrid, say, or Dublin--now rock to the small hours. In Prague the foreign visitors who get talked about are not the earnest young Americans who flocked there in the early 1990s, but British partygoers who have flown in for the cheap beer and pretty girls. The place that British historian Mark Mazower once called the true dark continent--and from whose curdled soul the horrors of fascism and communism sprang--has become...