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LAURA LINNEY YOU CAN COUNT ON ME Laura Linney has been down this road before. It was 1998, and "The Truman Show" was being heaped with critical praise. By the time Oscar season rolled around, however, the film had lost much of its heat. Truman received a handful of nominations, but Linney was denied a nod for her creepy, hilarious turn as Jim Carrey's wife, an overly cheerful actress who periodically turns to hidden cameras in their home to plug household products, and the film itself was absent from the Best Picture category. "You call something the movie...
...missile capabilities if Washington proceeds with the missile shield plan, which may make most U.S. allies dig their heels in for fear of reviving the arms race. There are also looming crises for Western interests along Russia?s borders, with Moscow likely to turn up the economic and political heat on their pro-NATO neighbors in Georgia and Ukraine...
...thought, yes, there is. It has happened to me once or twice. Love at first sight sets you on fire. Friendship at first sight kindles a steadier and, well, friendlier heat...
...case, I am not sure that friendship, a warm-blooded organism, can survive on so much abstraction. That metaphysical dinner was weeks ago. Now it's the season of real friends gathering to warm themselves with the heat of one another's company. We need that when days are shortest and coldest. We need friendship pulsing in our veins when the pipes freeze in the kitchen...
Newspaper editorials decried the move as Orwellian. From Disney and Microsoft to a lowly Internet service provider in Oshkosh, Wis., competitors began turning up the heat. Separately, press accounts of AOL's take-no-prisoners approach to its business partners made the Internet entrepreneurs seem as predatory as the cable guys. By this fall, even the American Civil Liberties Union was claiming that the new company could be dangerous...