Word: firth
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...many great lines, Curtis was able to assemble quite a constellation of stars for his directorial debut, Love Actually, which opens next week. In a web of interconnected love stories, Hugh Grant plays the Prime Minister, Emma Thompson his sister, Liam Neeson a widower with a stepson, and Colin Firth a writer who moves to France after his girlfriend cheats on him. Curtis and four of his stars sat down with TIME's Josh Tyrangiel in London to discuss love, Governor Schwarzenegger and Grant's inimitable dance moves...
...COLIN FIRTH: Do we have to cut it anytime anyone says "your bloody film," or just Emma...
RICHARD: It was quite frightening, working with the people here. It was like going to bed with a girl, and the last four people she slept with were Brad Pitt, Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson and Colin Firth. I don't have any experience really. Talking to Liam, I would think, I wonder what Steven Spielberg does in this situation? I remember once saying to an actress at the end of the first take of a scene, "That was so brilliant. I didn't realize the scene was so serious. You brought a real profundity." And then she was a Belsen...
...whether he'd turned out right if he went bad, the show could have been a mix of the amateur ABBA show "Mamma Mia" and London's longest-running bad musical, "Blood Brothers" (15 years and it hasn't had the grace to close). But the Tim Firth book weaves the songs smartly around a cleverly developed situation, and director Matthew Warchus moves the dense human traffic with lightning precision. Even the dancing's good. Run - fly - to London before the show, which won the Olivier Award for Best Musical, closes. You have two weeks...
...hydraulic accumulator, which condenses the power into a motor that drives the generator. David Baird, managing director of Babtie, the engineering group that is working with Ayre, thinks tidal stream power has a big future. "Twice a day the North Sea drains in and out of the Pentland Firth," he says. "We estimate that using tidal stream generators we could meet all of the renewable energy needs of the U.K." The Severn Estuary was chosen to test the new technology because it has the world's highest range between high and low tides, around 12 m, and during the Severn...