Word: hiatus
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Instead, Lawrence cast Sarah Jessica Parker, on hiatus between her two Sex and the City feature films, as the heroine. Parker, I have to say, is a startling presence on the big screen. Large-featured, rail-thin and well-toned, she always looks as if she's just completed a session at the poshest workout spa in the gulag. But her sinewy perkiness makes an appropriate contrast to Grant's soft features and stammering charm. They are the opposites who might conceivably attract. As moneyed Manhattanites Meryl and Paul Morgan, she's a homegrown real estate agent...
Dump him now, however, and you risk missing the upside of one of the potentially great comebacks in sports. What if, after Tiger's hiatus, he emerges contrite, marriage repaired, and his game better than ever? Woods, who earns more than $100 million annually in endorsements, could actually become more valuable after this mess. "It'll be a tale of redemption and forgiveness," says Marc Ganis, president of SportsCorp, a consulting firm. "I guarantee you that somebody has already written the freaking script." (See pictures of Tiger Woods' best victory moments...
...start switching razor brands (unless, perhaps, he endorses Bic out of spite). Yet Procter & Gamble, Gillette's parent company, is no fan of controversy. "P&G is known as being a traditional, conservative company," says Sturner. Plan on seeing more Roger Federer - and no Tiger - while he takes his hiatus from golf...
News that Fox's breakout hit Glee would go on hiatus after Dec. 9 hit viewers hard. Fans - or "Gleeks" in show parlance - flooded the Twittersphere with support for the sitcom, which follows a bunch of lovable misfits who find in their high school glee club both a home and ample opportunities to reprise mega-songs from stars like Madonna and Neil Diamond. Many Gleeks started sharing an online petition opposing the planned four-month interregnum. "I rearranged all of my classes so that I can watch Glee," writes distraught signatory Lisa Wright, a college freshman in Illinois...
...Amour, 43, to embrace her high school-choir history by joining the Ann Arbor Civic Chorus. "Seeing Glee was like, 'Oh my God, I really need to reactivate that piece of me,' " she says. (A busy travel schedule for her consulting job has since forced her to take a hiatus of her own.) (See Glee in the Top 10 Everything...