Word: girls
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...indifferent world. She is, to be sure, lucky to have Don Cheadle in the leading role. He's an actor who knows how to play outrage without losing touch with his own inherent sweetness of spirit. And they are both fortunate to have Taraji P. Henson as Petey's girl friend, Vernell. As she proved in Hustle and Flow, she is a star in waiting - both beautiful and irresistibly free-spirited. There's nothing cute or teasing in her sexuality, nothing but in-the-moment honesty in her emotions...
From the opening shot—a panoramic pan down a parched suburban landscape—it is clear that this is no ordinary “Potter” film. Yates has only one other American directing credit, the much-lauded “The Girl in the Café,” which aired on HBO. In fact, according to the Internet Movie Database, he has done only one other feature-length film amid a slew of short films and movies for television. Not only does Yates put his own stylish stamp on the franchise?...
...Matchbox toys may be moststrongly associated with little boys, tiny cars in hand, making vroom-vroom racing sounds, but it was actually a girl who inspired her father, British engineer Jack Odell, to create this masterpiece of miniaturization after her school decreed that only toys small enough to fit inside an old-fashioned matchbox would be allowed. In addition to cars, buses, dump trucks, bulldozers and cement mixers, the Matchbox Toy empire came to embrace a few delicate designs as well, such as a miniature coronation coach made to commemorate Elizabeth II taking the throne in 1952. Odell...
...place on a Stateside base, never sets a dusty foot in the combat zone. It's a guilty pleasure first, soapy and clichd; there's rarely an emotional moment without a big-eyed kid or a Jude Johnstone ballad to cue the waterworks. There are affairs, alcoholism and girl-talk sessions in which the characters chat about nicknaming their "lady parts" ("my fine china," for instance...
...Nguyen Thu Phuong, 18, has been studying for more than a year for the exams, and was poring over a few last-minute math equations on a bench shortly before testing began. Her mother, anxiously fanning the girl as she studied, once fought for the communist side in the Vietnam War and had recently retired from a state-run factory, but she dreams her daughter can someday work in banking or finance. "It's not like the old days," she said. "If children don't have a university degree, it's really difficult to get a good...