Word: ers
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...decades he has been the anti-Bernard--a craftsman so light, lithe and likable he almost disappears into his best films. He was Debra Winger's unworthy husband, coasting on amiability, in Terms of Endearment; the -er half of Dumb & Dumber, with Jim Carrey; the Pleasantville soda-shop owner who is turned from a black-and-white cipher into an artist painting in glorious Technicolor...
...pride says, ‘Oh yes, you can.’” The thing is, he ain’t as good as he once was—“but I’m as good once, as I ev-er...
MARY-KATE and ASHLEY OLSEN, left, both 19, the merchandising moguls and New York City club kids--er, college students--have found a new way to expand their billion-dollar media empire: hire more twins. The Olsens' company, Dualstar Entertainment, has entered a licensing agreement with child actors DYLAN and COLE SPROUSE, both 13, who currently star in their own show on the Disney Channel and also appeared on the sitcom Friends. The new brand, D.C. Sprouse, hangs on the twins' cuteness and likability and will include DVD movies, CDs, clothing, sports gear and video games to appeal...
...writers of NBC's My Name Is Earl likewise claim to feel little pressure to save a multibillion-dollar business. They just want to get the smoking episode done. In it, Earl Hickey (Jason Lee)--a ne'er-do-well trying to make amends to everyone he has ever wronged--resolves to quit cigarettes. NBC executives have asked for rewrites to make Earl more "active." Shooting is due to start in two days, so the staff of a dozen settles into comfy chairs in the writers' room, downs bottled water and bats around the problem: How can someone actively...
...roles--Amon Goeth in Schindler's List, the Count in The English Patient, Hamlet and Coriolanus onstage--conflated with his public persona. As for the public part, Fiennes doesn't give his fans much news to play with. He is divorced from actress Alex Kingston (ER) and has lived for a decade with actress Francesca Annis, 18 years his senior. He refuses to connect any dots between his roles and himself. And he rarely uses his fame as a bully pulpit; he marched against the Iraq invasion but anonymously, with a group of friends...