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James L. Brooks loves to manufacture a genial head butting between nice people--well-mannered folks whose ethics are too rigorous not to point out the flaws of those they love. He pulled it off in Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, As Good As It Gets and, in fact, his one film flop, I'll Do Anything. This time he crams a Malibu house with anguished sweeties: superchef John (Adam Sandler); John's two good, frazzled kids; his mother-in-law (Cloris Leachman); and two newcomers, gorgeous Mexican housekeeper Flor (Paz Vega) and her perfect daughter Cristina (Shelbie Bruce...
...telling the media that "my main dream in life was to break out of poverty." What he often fails to mention in his Horatio Alger-style tale is that as a teenager he spent almost four years in jail for robbery and assault, though the charges were later reversed. Genial but wooden tongued and more fluent in Russian than in Ukrainian, Yanukovych is reminiscent of a Soviet-era party boss, an image aided by his 6-ft.- 6-in., 240-lb. frame. That style goes down well in his conservative home base in the Donbass, Ukraine's industrial powerhouse, where...
...other way. He turned down several offers to participate in documentaries and cable movies because he felt they wouldn't find a large enough audience. (This year being the 10th anniversary of the massacre, there are already several documentaries on the subject on the festival circuit.) The genial hotel manager of the past is no more. Now owner of a trucking concern and living in Belgium, Rusesabagina says the horrors he witnessed in Rwanda "made me a different man. I used to be friendly, to trust people, to trust in my friends, but that has changed...
...telling the media that "my main dream in life was to break out of poverty." What he often fails to mention in his Horatio Alger?style tale is that he spent almost four years in jail as a teenager for robbery and assault, though the charges were later reversed. Genial but wooden tongued, more fluent in Russian than Ukrainian, Yanukovych is reminiscent of a Soviet-era party boss, an image aided by his almost 2 m, 109-kg frame. That style goes down well in his conservative home base in the Donbass, Ukraine's industrial powerhouse, where the Russian-leaning...
...part in the John Travolta movie A Civil Action persuaded the genial college senior to try acting...