Word: frankenstein
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...million dining-room icons: agate-blue eyes, cheeks that didn't need to be sucked in for that dishy aesthetic look, a strength to match the facial sensitivity. For a while Powell had the lock on brainy charisma; he played Gustav Mahler, Henry Higgins, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Victor Frankenstein. After months on the Zeffirelli film, Powell said, "I hope Jesus Christ will be the last in my line of sensitive young men for quite a while...
...asked the deejay to put on the hip-hop song, “Encore” by Jay-Z. Linebacker Willie McGinest joined in, dancing the “Crip Walk,” while Belichick extended both arms forward with visible reluctance and made a Frankenstein-esque motion...
...called paid search (we'll get to that later), for $1.63 billion--while Overture was itself in the middle of digesting two recent acquisitions, AltaVista and AlltheWeb. The plan, as near as anybody outside Yahoo can make out, is to stitch all those disparate organizations into one huge Frankenstein's monster of a search engine that will strike terror into the hearts of all who behold it. "I think search is clearly among our company's most important strategic initiatives," says Jeff Weiner, Yahoo's vice president of search. Indeed...
...friendly/We just want money and fame/We're the X Generation/We just like to complain.") Collecting all 13 episodes, including one never aired, the two-disc set reunites the original cast and writers to reminisce about the doomed effort. Says Garofalo of one inspiredly weird skit (The Bride of Frankenstein remade in the style of Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives): "Even as we were doing it, I was wondering why we were doing it." For the DVD, Janeane, for the DVD. --By James Poniewozik
...Meehan, who looks more like a comparative-literature professor than the zany other half of a comedic duo, is visiting California to see if another Brooks film, Young Frankenstein (1974), can yield the same dividends as their previous endeavor. And if that means wearing a pair of suede sneakers, then...