Word: gracefulness
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...adversary tells Eastwood in Space Cowboys, "but you're an old man." No need to tell Eastwood; he knows. As a sleuth in True Crime and In the Line of Fire, and as a career criminal in Unforgiven and Absolute Power, the actor-director has dramatized the perils and grace of something we all do (if we're lucky): age. His breath is short, his trigger finger is arthritic, and the young women in his life are more likely to be his daughters or his bosses than a hot amour. Yet even at 70, he's still Clint, which means...
Left hopelessly in debt by the death of a feckless spouse, Grace Trevethen (the expert Brenda Blethyn) puts her gardening skills to good criminal use. With the help of her handyman, Matthew (Craig Ferguson, who is also the film's co-writer and producer), she starts growing pot by the kilo in her greenhouse. The results are predictable--especially if you're a fan of that most basic of English comic genres, in which simple, provincial folk foil the bumbling law in order to preserve a traditional way of life. Grace is not as tightly wound as the best...
...gold-hungry Australians because she combines technical perfection with an aggressively competitive psyche--either of which could provide a margin of victory in races that are often won by hundredths of a second. In the fly, her muscular shoulders power in and out of the water with such remarkable grace that Quick points out the obvious: "Watch Jenny's stroke. It's the best in the world...
...expectations? Sassa explained this lapse of attention: "We were obsessed"--he might have said afflicted--"with having the highest quality shows and the highest quality audiences, and because of that we weren't as aggressive on [reality TV] as we could have been." In English: Frasier, Friends and Will & Grace were attracting the well-to-do young viewers advertisers cherish, and reality be damned...
...only the rest of America knew what they were missing: Lance, the once brash young fellow who survived advanced testicular cancer and went on to win two Tours with absolute grace and stunning determination. A genuine, soft-spoken guy who's not only unafraid of being a role model to young cyclists, but who has also embraced his stature as a hero in the cancer community. This is the kind of man we want kids to look up to: Someone who has found peace with himself, who invites his competitors to ride his back wheel up the worst...