Word: fined
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...first nine seasons, in which Chef was virtually the only adult character treated with affectionate respect. Parker and Stone also gave Hayes his last hit single: a ribald novelty tune, Chocolate Salty Balls, that went to No. 1 in the U.K. and No. 2 in Ireland. It was a fine tribute to the prime singer-songwriter of gourmet sex: Hot Buttered Soul, Chocolate Chip, Juicy Fruit...
...waitstaff. They should not be participating in the cut. You know this is illegal because if you ask the owner if he does it, he'll say no. That puts waiters between a rock and a hard place. They can say no, but the manager can say, "Fine. Don't come to work tomorrow." Waiters are often students, or between jobs, and they're vulnerable to that kind of pressure. Very often they'll cave in because they need to eat and pay the rent. If you're a single mother, you can't always make a principled stand...
...conflict can only be the terrible muddle that finally elbows aside the previously preoccupying sexual shambles. That's especially true of The Dying Animal, when mortality settles on the wrong person at the wrong time. There are things wrong with Coixet's movie. Ben Kingsley is, of course, a fine actor, but in this instance there seems to me something smug, held back, in his work. Roth's Kepesh, at least for a time, has more spritzing fun with his minor celebrity life than Kingsley's does. The latter seems insufficiently surprised and confused by the turn his life takes...
...movies usually presents itself as the end of a bullet's path. Or, alternatively, in an inspiring deathbed scene, where the victim appears to be suffering no more than a bad case of la grippe. It's important to see the threat of death as predictably unpredictable, another fine mess we heedlessly fall into. And that Elegy does very powerfully...
Elegy Directed by Isabel Coixet; rated R; out now Professor has affair with lovely grad student: we've heard that one before. So had Philip Roth, whose novel The Dying Animal is acutely attuned to the dissonance of May-December love. This fine film has a touching performance by Penélope Cruz and a great one by Ben Kingsley. Cue the Oscar buzz...