Word: gritted
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...That yanks Notorious out of the urban-grit category and into the genre of the doomed star cut down by fame. Such a movie needs a star turn, and it gets one from Woolard, who has the stolidity and solidity, and nearly the size, of the Bamiyan Buddhas. He's one of those music performers turned actors who takes instantly to being at the center of a movie; he's both potent and at ease. Like Wallace, Woolard, whose rap handle is Gravy, has been the victim of gunfire. And last weekend, at a Greensboro, N.C., theater where he attended...
...shopgirl who becomes pregnant in the one-night-stand immaculate conceptions familiar in movies of the '60s (and today; see Knocked Up). But since she had the good fortune to be impregnated by McQueen, true love is assured. The plot is Hollywood hokum with a patina of New Yawk grit, but Mulligan was always an ace at revealing the subtle starlight behind the Kleig lights...
...than they were during Horatio Alger’s day. In a 2007 article titled “Rags to Riches Billionaires,” Forbes reported that “almost two-thirds of the world’s 946 billionaires made their fortunes from scratch, relying on grit and determination, and not good genes.” Clearly, while the American public loves wealth, we love self-made wealth even more. Gladwell divides his treatise into two sections, one on opportunity, exposing how so many success stories rely on catching chance breaks, and the other on legacy, which...
...truth, the British still got a little better of the deal in this transatlantic transaction. With mostly American actors taking a stab at northern England accents, the home scenes don't have the authenticity or grit they do in London. The dance-class ensemble includes a few too many mugging little girls trying out for Annie. The show is not quite as well sung as it was in London, and the Billy I saw (David Alvarez, one of three boys who are alternating in the role) turns out to be, unsurprisingly, a better dancer than actor. Still, Billy Elliot does...
Slumdog Millionaire Everybody say namaste to director Danny Boyle's hurtling epic about a poor kid (Dev Patel) who improbably answers tough posers on the Indian edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? A masala of romance and history, with true grit plus a fabulous production number--it's what movies ought...