Word: jimming
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...named Rodney Copperbottom (Ewan McGregor) small-town life with his poor parents (Dianne West and Stanley Tucci) leaves him unsatisfied. He travels to the prototypical big city but is overwhelmed by the bustle of city life and corporate greed. Phineas T. Ratchet (Greg Kinnear) and his conniving, demonic mother (Jim Broadbent) look to suck every penny out of the outmoded robots...
...really nice, really quiet” teammate. Virtually unwanted during his junior year at Friends Central—“Penn, Drexel, St. Joe’s, Villanova…none of them really recruited him,” Frank says—Warrick turned legendary Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim’s head as a late fill-in at a summer All-Star camp...
TERRY SEMEL WANTED THE DEAL BADLY. FOR months the Yahoo! CEO had watched as the head of his entertainment division, Jim Moloshok, met repeatedly with Mark Burnett, producer of the Survivor series, trying to land the exclusive Internet rights to Burnett's other hit show. Semel knew Burnett was talking to competitors AOL and MSN too. So early last fall the former co-chairman of Warner Bros. made a Hollywood move: he combined a personal plea with a hard sell. When he walked into Burnett's office, Semel didn't waste time with niceties. Burnett recalls, "He said, 'We want...
...helped along by a Midwestern retro-adult face, made not so much for comedy as it is for telling people to get back to work. He's clever enough to use that look to his advantage, to maintain the grownup posture in ridiculous situations; he's the anti--Jim Carrey...
ACCORDING TO A SOURCE IN the State Department, Jim Wilkinson, a senior adviser to Condoleezza Rice, recently asked the department's historian for a list of countries that have never been visited by a U.S. Secretary of State. An unlikely Trivial Pursuit question, his inquiry signals that Rice's travels, which have already taken her to 11 countries in her first six weeks on the job, will be more extensive than most of her predecessors'. "The Secretary will travel when there's serious diplomatic work to be done," says Wilkinson. "There's no better diplomacy than personal contact...