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...first TV job, as host of the daytime show Space Shuttle 430, he learned how to amuse kids with sly jokes and an impudent eloquence in body language. He became a film star as the little guy with false bravado who lucks into hero status. That's the formula here, but this time Chow doesn't take center stage until the last half an hour. Instead he uses his old comic style--mixing deadpan delivery with wild visual gags--to create an elegant directorial approach...
...formula, they don’t believe in all that superstitious nonsense they’ve heard about the suspicious goings-on in the house. As George Lutz (Ryan Reynolds), the patriarch and apparently avid bumper-sticker reader, says, “Houses don’t kill people, people kill people...
...plots a mystery as well as any other writer alive, and he never takes the easy path of repeating a winning formula. Instead, Robert Barnard has worked his way, with freshness and originality, through the customary British variations: the stories involving academic life, the publishing world, the news media, stately homes, ancient titles, the royal family and the down-and-out. The only consistent elements in his novels have been precise perceptions and a larkish sense of humor. In Out of the Blackout, Barnard finds unlikely vitality in one of the most overworked subgenres: the story of an adopted child...
...countries. Enrile was responding to a vote by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month to cut the Philippines' military aid next fiscal year from a proposed $100 million to $25 million; the amount was increased to $70 million last week. The change in the aid formula was initiated by New York Democrat Stephen J. Solarz as an "incentive" to force the Philippine government into political and economic reforms...
...Today is good at spotting a trend early, whether it is the growing popularity of Tofutti or the rising demand for automobile sunroofs. Its emphasis on American popular culture leads its reporters to explore in telling detail, day after day, such events as Coca-Cola's switches in formula and just about anything to do with Hollywood. The writing style, once derided as pale and plodding, has grown much livelier...