Word: hunk
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...Henry VIII lived a life that was positively high-def-TV-ready, one that could have spiced up 16th century newsstands, had tabloid editors been around instead of Erasmus. And now Henry is making up for centuries of being relegated to the Old Kings' club by becoming Hollywood's hunk du jour. The Tudors, the most expensive Showtime series ever, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a svelte and sporty King, starts April 1. A film adaptation of Philippa Gregory's 2002 best-selling historical novel The Other Boleyn Girl, with Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn, Scarlett Johansson as her sister...
...gorgeous, it feels unnatural and cheap. In the fourth movie, for example, an entire scene is dedicated to a female character trying to spy on him in the bath, and all the action scenes glorify his physique. In transfer from page to screen, Harry has become the brooding teenage hunk, fitting into the cheap, star-studded framework of Hollywood aesthetics. In the novel, Harry is exceptional for being a bookish hero; in the movie, for being some sort of jailbait Adonis. Even worse, the supporting actors—creepy Alan Rickman and noseless Ralph Fiennes—are beautiful people...
...there no heroes anymore? This week, a fella named Donald Trump arose to save Miss USA from the gutter. "After days of headlines about her underage drinking, failed cocaine test, nightclub bathroom antics, and incessant hunk-hunting in Big Apple hotspots," as the New York Post put it, surely young Tara Conner, a small-town Kentucky girl grooving overly on the Big Apple, would be stripped (ooh) of what the New York Daily News called "her $17,500 Mikimoto pearl-dotted tiara...
...There are a hunk of people who just look at it as a moral religious point of view as just being wrong,” said Managing Director of Harvard Opinion Research Program John M. Benson...
BORN TO RUN Susan Ralston, top aide to Karl Rove, resigns after an investigation reveals multiple contacts with felonious hunk Jack Abramoff. Ralston, an ex-colleague of Abramoff's, also accepted tickets to sporting events and concerts, including one by John Kerry-- backer Bruce Springsteen. Her loyalties we can live with. But her musical taste betrayed...