Word: knacks
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...Minghella had a thing for literary adaptation, and he also had a knack for it. He could translate the feel of a book onto the screen without making the viewer feel like they were reading a book. He showed off his skills yet again with 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel and the first of three films he made with Jude Law. "He was a brilliantly talented writer and director who wrote dialog that was a joy to speak and then put it onto the screen in a way that always looked effortless...
...strike continued, Ganis would have been charged with the awkward task of orchestrating an Academy Awards ceremony devoid of writers and of actors. Anyone who watched Jon Stewart struggle without his writers on “The Daily Show” knows the man does not have a knack for the extemporaneous. But thanks to the reached settlement the Oscars we all know and love were carried off Sunday night; Stewart was spared from addressing an empty Kodak Theater off-the-cuff. Instead, the same crowds of stars descended upon the L.A. landmark for the hours-long affair that...
...high school teachers nicknamed Smith "Prince" for his knack for charming his way out of trouble. It was at a party in the basement of a neighborhood DJ, "Jazzy" Jeff Townes, that Smith's magnetism first paid off professionally. He won over Townes and the DJ's manager, James Lassiter, who has steered Smith's career for the past 22 years and who runs Overbrook Entertainment, the production company named for the high school they attended. Before Smith finished his senior year, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince released their first album, and Smith decided to forgo college...
...long-dormant Celtics as symbols of dominance, other Harvard squads are following football’s lead as the college reestablishes its own culture of winning.First, there’s men’s basketball, where head coach Tommy Amaker’s knack for recruiting has generated a great deal of enthusiasm for the coming seasons. In this regard, Amaker resembles not Belichick but Theo Epstein, who has also focused on developing young talent and boasts an impressive class of young recruits to show for it.Then there’s the men’s hockey team, which beat...
2nd/1:55: Richter snags a puck right out of the air. Early in the season, the sophomore is developing a knack for glove-work...