Word: fobbed
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...banquet of creepy, gory or grotesque incidents is on display in Hannibal, the corrosive and haunting film version of Thomas Harris' sequel to The Silence of the Lambs. One man is disemboweled and hanged in public, his entrails dangling like a watch fob. Another is thrown to ravenous wild boars as a Lucullan snack. A third malefactor is condemned to dine on a little brain food (his own); it's Lecter's idea of just desserts. But none of these atrocities is more disquieting than that moment at the carousel--the first-ever physical contact between a cannibal of genius...
...romantic comedy. Lopez's role in The Wedding Planner is as far from her typical persona as Doris Day is from Gladys Knight. This time she's Mary Fiore, a superefficient bridal manager who, minutes before the ceremony, can locate and subdue an absent father of the bride ("the FOB is MIA") but can't find a man for herself. Enter prince charming: Dr. Steve (Matthew McConaughey), who's handsome, funny and loves kids; he runs a local children's hospital. This being San Francisco, Steve must be gay, right? No, he's engaged--to a rich woman (Bridgette Wilson...
...state system still suffers from a decade of intervention by former Governor Fob James, a wily if obtuse politician of the old school, adept at surviving by switching parties and baiting voters. In 1988, riding a tide of states' rights fervor, he appointed a friend, Martha Nachman, as welfare commissioner, with a mandate to ignore federal court-imposed guidelines on foster care. The mammoth state agency quickly deteriorated...
...Fob James was defeated in the 1998 gubernatorial elections. But his legacy is a state of delay. Only a third of Alabama's 67 counties have yet fully converted to the new systems mandated by the court order...
...lottery operator Gtech and AOL. The lawyer and former civil servant has dished dirt on tobacco whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand and the United Way's wayward William Aramony. In the early '90s, Lenzner even investigated the Paula Jones case for the Clinton camp, sealing his reputation as an official FOB, or Friend of Bill...