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...they couldn't get them relabeled on time. Wines costing $15 to $25 a bottle were going for under two bucks. Within a week after the deadline, at least 15,000 small stores, including expensive wine boutiques, went out of business. Shelves of imported alcohol have been stripped bare, except for lonely bottles of German alcohol-free wine. The posh Bosco Café in Red Square, Moscow, famous for its cocktails and elaborate wine list, now typically restricts its aperitif offerings to unimaginative gin or scotch, while patrons wash down fish dishes with overpriced Chianti from Bosco's depleted stocks...
...dead people" in 1999, took in $672 million at the worldwide box office; Signs in 2002, an additional $408 million. Even his "flops," Unbreakable and The Village, grossed in the $250 million range. Shyamalan (pronounced Shah-ma-lahn) is well aware of the power of those numbers. "Except for Pixar, I have made the four most successful original movies in a row of all time," he says--not as a boast but to explain Hollywood math. His films are relatively inexpensive to shoot, costing about $65 million to $68 million. "If you're not betting on me," he says, "then...
...though I was) as because I was a pretentious one. My bedroom library was stocked with such scholarly tomes as The Natural History of Love, Eros in the Modern World, the Kinsey Report and Ginzburg's own survey, An Unhurried View of Erotica. Of these books I remember little except odd bits of effluvia. Kinsey informed me that one in seven farm lads had engaged in, shall we say, animal husbandry ("Until," as Tom Lehrer would add, "they caught him at it"). From Ginzburg I learned that Benjamin Franklin had written a mock-scientific essay on the technique of farting...
...Except, curiously, Molly. There's something so innocent and vulnerable about Dupree that it slowly awakens her sympathy - especially when she contrasts it to Carl's workaholic and neglectful ways. He has been rendered sullen and distracted by her real estate mogul father (Michael Douglas), for whom he works. The old man is sabotaging a project he has given his son-in-law. Worse, he's trying to sabotage their marriage - proposing, among other things, that Carl replace his own last name with Molly's and, incidentally, have a vasectomy, so as not to pollute the family gene pool...
...Except when there’s nothing to translate, in the first place...