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...elected are former Czech astronaut Vladimir Remek; Finland's four-time winner of the Paris-Dakar rally, Ari Vatanen; Bulgarian Taekwondo champion and nightclub impresario Slavi Binev; and Paul Georg Maria Joseph Dominikus von Habsburg, the grandson of the last Austro-Hungarian emperor. Also making a bid is Gigi Becali, the owner of Romania's Steaua Bucharest soccer club, who is facing kidnapping charges...
...particularly awkward scene of the Valentine’s Day chick flick, “He’s Just Not That Into You,” Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin) sits on a sofa with her friend, Alex (Justin Long). Alex, yawning, announces that he is going to retire to bed, and Gigi immediately follows up with, “Is that an invitation?” Such cringe-inducing moments are not rare in the movie; however, unlike the typical chick flick, the film uses these episodes to translate genuine sentiment. Despite the ever-present threat of takeover...
...Consider the case of Baltimore copywriter Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin, of Big Love) and bar manager Alex (Justin Long, that cute guy from the Apple commercials). They meet while she's eagerly stalking his friend Conor (Kevin Connolly), a real estate broker she had one mediocre date with. Alex takes her hand and gently explains the rules of the game: "If a guy is treating you like he doesn't give a [expletive], he genuinely doesn't give a [expletive...
...Gigi begins to listen to him, and as he schools her on the ways of men - like Henry Higgins crossed with Dr. Phil - she grows fond of him. Which gives her ideas, because she is the sweetest little romantic fool who ever lived. In Big Love as Margene, Goodwin has shown she's a master of the marvelously naive. Gigi makes Margene seem as canny as Hillary Clinton. Every woman in this film gets her head pushed into the proverbial flushing toilet at least once, but poor Gigi has the distinction of being the most humiliated of them all. Somehow...
...magazines. But here's the rub: what she sees in the media does affect that self-image, especially in terms of her body. Some experts recommend media-literacy classes--as early as kindergarten. "Children need to learn how to dissect and understand this pervasive aspect of their environment," says Gigi Durham, author of The Lolita Effect, "just as they learn to understand the seasons or Newton's laws of motion...