Word: jj
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Present: Greaney, Ireland, Spina, Cowin, & Cordy, JJ...
Oddly enough, he was right. The four would-be suicides are Martin, a disgraced talk-show host; JJ, a failed rock musician; Jess, a teenager who just got dumped by her boyfriend; and Maureen, a middle-aged shut-in with a severely disabled son. Momentarily distracted from self-destruction, the four get to comparing notes. (Maureen is immediately judged the top gun, misery-wise. "Oh, yeah," says Jess. "That's a no-brainer. Don't change your mind. You'd only regret it.") They decide to put off jumping and instead form a bickering, wary, ad hoc fellowship...
...divorced himself. Like Maureen, he has a disabled child; his son Danny is autistic. And although at 48 he's on a serious roll-the movie Fever Pitch is based on a memoir of his, and Johnny Depp just bought the rights to A Long Way Down-like JJ, Hornby knows the pain of a stalled career. "A lot of that is about remembering how frustrated and hopeless I felt when I was 30 and didn't think I'd ever be able to do what I wanted to do," Hornby says. "My first book was published when...
...stores and restaurants. Some of the women out for shopping or dinner have dyed-brown hair piled high with looping curls and ultra-feminine (and frequently pink) outfits replete with bows and frills. These are the "Nagoya Gals," a look that swept Japan last year when Tokyo fashion bible JJ gave it its stamp of approval. "Nagoya Gal Kits" flew off Tokyo department-store shelves, and toymaker Takara released a "Nagoya Gal" edition of Rika-chan, the Japanese equivalent of Barbie. Says Maiko Takagi, editor of Nagoya fashion magazine Trend: "People in Tokyo are paying attention to what...
...euro.) Leung nabs them, but on his way to claim his reward from a grateful U.S. government, he's waylaid and re-robbed by rival thief Owen Lee (Richie Jen). That sets off a cat-and-cat game between Leung and Jen in Seoul, with pillow-lipped, helium-voiced JJ (Shu Qi) as a third thief who fetchingly gets in everyone's way. As the story unfolds, the plot ties itself into some complicated knots, despite the best efforts of director Ma, who has the characters stop punching and kicking each other every five minutes or so to explain what...