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...barely suppressed panic (Carell, Cera); but most are guys comfortable in their own skin, however flabby or unsightly it may be. I'm not good-looking, the Rogen-Hill-Segel men say, but I can make people laugh. And in a comedy, funny is sexy. Rudd hasn't that gift (as is obvious in the video-game riffing he does with Rogen in Virgin: his younger partner is way ahead of him). He's stranded in Apatow-land, but he ought to connect with at least some of them men in the audience. He's like 98% of American males...
...yourself in ways you couldn’t before. And suddenly you see that this idea of the artist, the creative individual as someone blessed with some sort of spirit from the muses or what have you is wrong. This is all of us. The human species has the gift of the muses. And that’s a remarkable discovery.”Clapp and Croft don’t have a specific goal in mind for the trajectory of the weekly discussions. They are satisfied as long as people are making personal connections and thinking about creativity...
...Haute couture is a small part of a modern fashion house's income - just a way to get publicity for the brand. The real money is in the accessories: handbags, shoes, perfume. But the old-school Valentino declares that his gift is "to design and to create dresses. I always did this. I am not capable to do anything else. I am a disaster in everything else." In his climactic show, which everyone seems to know is his last, his admirers shed tears as they congratulate him. Karl Lagerfeld, another king designer-dinosaur, tells Valentino, "Compared to this, the rest...
...Harvard Computer Society sent me a Valentine’s Day gift this year: the names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of ten Harvard girls. According to HCS, I was highly compatible with all of them...
...TIME that the Islamists are divided over their response to Israel's offer. The split is between the exiled leadership in Damascus and the political and military wings in Gaza, which took the brunt of the Israeli offensive in the coastal strip. "Why should we give Olmert a farewell gift?" says one Hamas official close to the exiled leaders in Syria. "After all, he launched attacks on Gaza and killed many...