Word: joying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When Pretty Woman came out in 1990, it was a smash, especially with women, and I hated it. Jeffrey Katzenberg, who ran the studio that made the film, explained what I was missing: "You don't understand shopping." SATC is similarly attuned to the shopping impulse, to the joy of having, and, even more, the thrill of coveting, Carrie knows Big is her soul mate because, in their new apartment, he magically produces what she most desires: extra closet space, which is the most elusive real estate in New York. Samantha practically has a crisis of conscience when...
...films, your Indys and Woodys and Clints and kung fu cartoons, dominate international coverage of the 61st Cannes Film Festival. But for the reviewers, there's the daily joy and slog of covering the 21 films in competition for the Palme d'Or and another 40 or so in satellite showcases. Here are critical snapshots of 10 films, from six countries, which tell more about the current, tenuous state of world cinema than the star-encrusted Hollywood fare. (Speaking of which, we went to a party last night where we both spoke at length with Mr. Eastwood...
...joy following the end of the cold war, one nation did not share in the festivities. Russia lost more than an empire - it lost its stature as a superpower. Indeed, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has called the collapse of the Soviet Union "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century." During the cold war, Russia would celebrate Victory Day each year on May 9 by holding a parade to honor its triumph over the invading forces of Nazi Germany. Eager to flaunt its modern might, Moscow would showcase its intercontinental ballistic missiles, tanks would rumble past the Kremlin...
...their leaders - sectarian warlords, corrupt tycoons and rebel clerics - creating more problems than solutions. So when almost all of the country's top men boarded planes on Friday for negotiations in Qatar to end the country's worst crisis since the end of the Lebanese civil war, there was joy in the land. "No one wants you; the population is living without you; your absence has made us comfortable," go the lyrics of The Leaders Left Lebanon, an instant hit song making the rounds on music television stations...
...These days, professing paternal joy in his six kids, Tyson says, "I have to live on the top of the world or the bottom of the ocean, but I don't know how to live in the middle of life." Now twice the age he was when he became champ, Tyson sings the sad, familiar refrain: "old too soon, smart too late." Not too late, though, to offer a hard-won perspective on a hard-fought life, in a movie that's a contender for best sports documentary, heavyweight class...