Word: idolize
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...only in Latin America but also in some parts of U.S. cities like Boston and New York, where the Venezuelan government--owned company Citgo is providing low-income residents with cheap heating oil this winter. Chávez has surpassed his good friend Fidel Castro as the anti-U.S. idol of the Latin American masses--and as a model for other populist leaders in the region, although few have his petroleum resources to use as a cudgel...
COREY CLARK The former American Idol contestant claimed he romanced judge Paula Abdul. The graver offense was his music...
This unpretentious album solves the mystery of how Kelly Clarkson unpinned herself from the scarlet A (for American Idol winner) that nearly doomed her career before it started. She works with strong producers, picks crisp, up-tempo songs that mine a slender emotional vein (to summarize: Why did you leave me, you jerk?) and sings them with an understatement alien to most of her peers. It's an (almost) guiltless pleasure...
...King Kong” is the story of unknown actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), who is recruited by adventurer producer Carl Denham (Jack Black) to star in a new film set on the high seas opposite matinee idol Bruce Baxter (Kyle Chandler of “Early Edition” fame). Denham, who’s lost his movie funding, hurries off in a boat with his lead actors and his technicians to a shoot in the high seas. Denham’s screenwriter/ Ann’s favorite playwright (quelle coincidence), Jack Driscoll (Adrian Brody), is unable...
...film in which actors break out in song, but Chan avoids cheesiness by embedding the musical scenes in a movie being shot inside his movie. Arty director Nie Wen (Cheung) is making a blockbuster musical in Shanghai, starring his longtime lover Sun Na (Zhou) and a hot Hong Kong idol, Lin Jian-dong (Kaneshiro). Nie's musical is set in a Chinese circus, which allows Chan to use acrobats, contortionists, fire-breathers, trapeze artists, clowns and dwarves to liven up the dance numbers. But the musical inside the movie is just a shadow play for the complex drama behind...