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...football. A long-time college sports administrator and former director of the Final Four, Hancock is the rare sports exec who has amassed few, if any, enemies, and actually enjoys helping people in a pinch. "I know at least 99 people who would list Bill as their absolute best friend," says Bob Condron, a veteran USOC executive who has known Hancock for some 40 years. "I'm just happy to be one of them...
...During the dinner party that opens the movie, the couple's pompous writer friend Sam (Mike Binder) hoists his glass to Pippa and describes her as still an enigma after 25 years of friendship. Sam's sense of Pippa as enigma probably has a lot to do with the fact that she's never been interested in sleeping with him, but he raises a fair point. Pippa and Herb recently moved from New York to a cloistered Connecticut retirement community, and the high point of Pippa's day is monitoring Herb's blood pressure. Most women in their...
...about. We assume Pippa has coasted through life on not much more than her beauty. The Lees' adult daughter, photojournalist Grace (Zoe Kazan), is crazy about her daddy, but when she directs her attention at her mother it's usually to give her a scathing look. Pippa's neurotic friend Sandra (Winona Ryder) chafing under her own marriage to the overbearing Sam, describes Pippa as "peaceful and good," ostensibly with admiration, but the undercurrent is "you're complacent and boring." We expect to agree, yet Pippa ends up being one of the most intriguing cinematic women of the year...
Halsey was known for his light-heartedness. Once a friend offered him a donut, and Halsey declined, saying jokingly, “I can’t distinguish the taste of something from its effects on my body...
...really like Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Prime Minister is a wise leader." - George W. Bush, former U.S. President, complimenting Singh the day after he called Bush a "great friend of India" (Press Trust of India...