Word: entertainers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...four boys and girls sleep downstairs in sleeping bags, fully clothed. That's O.K.," says Gary, 56. But when Joel became sexually active, there was a tightening in the family rules, and Gary and Andi spelled them out with great specificity. No sleepovers with a girlfriend. Joel could entertain in his room behind closed doors--watch videos, listen to music--but at 10 p.m., the girlfriend had to go. No matter how liberal and open the Sherwins were, they did not, under any circumstances, want their son having sex under their roof when they were in the house...
...didn’t speak a word, Derrah’s ebullient gestures would be enough to entertain an audience. In addition to his movements, though, Derrah tells Fo’s story with the passion and commitment of a true believer in the power of comedy...
...youngest-ever invitee to the ridiculously dangerous Pipe Masters. After he face-planted on a reef (an accident that left him with 150 stitches and extensive scars around his lip and forehead), Johnson made the transition into directing surf films. On "work" trips to Indonesia and Australia, he would entertain his buddies with mellow acoustic tunes, but never considered a career in music. "Because of where I grew up, music for me has always been just some guys sitting around, not really on a stage or anything," says Johnson, "but just playing down at the corner of the yard...
...Korean cinema enjoyed a brief golden age in the 1960s, when the industry churned out loads of mostly light fare to entertain a nation struggling to pull itself out of poverty. But strongman Park Chung Hee snuffed it out a decade later with tight censorship and draconian controls on production houses. Films were vapid and forgettable: even mild criticism of the government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered...
...Still, the very fact that the White House and Congress are ready to seriously entertain discussion over altering immigration laws in favor of illegal migrants from Mexico signals how far the integration of the two economies and societies has progressed in recent years. Many obstacles lie ahead, and the two governments will have substantially different concerns when they get down to negotiating a new immigration deal. Still, the tenor of this week's discussions in Washington suggest a sense of common destiny and shared responsibility unparalleled in the troubled history of U.S.-Mexican relations. And that may be President...