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...obvious answer - wear a condom - does not lend itself to a redemption movie. So a magical janitor, a kind of hobo Gandalf, appears, and - poof! - Mike is 17 again at his old school, only it's today; he's got the body of a teen god and the crafty mind of a 37-year-old loser. Among his classmates are his two kids, whom he quickly befriends so he can snoop on his wife. Oddly, she and Maggie are both attracted to the newcomer. Cue the comedy complications. What if Maggie wanted to have sex with this dreamy teen...
...Proof of Life,” “The Insider,” and last year’s “Body of Lies,” and he has become adept at playing the troubled but sympathetic antihero. Although his craggy face and shaggy hair lend his character the right air of schlubbyness, Crowe is charismatic enough to keep our attention. Mirren is feisty as Cal and Della’s boss, but her character lacks substance. As is often the case in an ensemble cast, many of the supporting actors are underutilized. Della, for instance...
...face. Christie (Amber Heard) rarely wears a top. Or a bra. In just about every other area, though, there is no comparing the two. For one thing, “The Informers,” a loosely connected series of short stories, doesn’t lend itself nearly as easily to screen adaptation as “American Psycho” did. “Informers” is a four-part swansong, a requiem to that free-love-meets-free-spending materialistic innocence that represented life in early-80s L.A. as sung by a film producer, his estranged...
...past includes bad mortgage loans, collateralized debt obligations and all manner of other lunkheaded lending decisions. It was also characterized by a 15-year decline in the net interest margin, a core measure of bank profitability that is the difference between what banks pay to borrow and what they charge to lend. The net interest margin is partly a product of interest rates: banks borrow short term and lend long term, so when long-term interest rates drop below short-term rates (as happened three times in the past 15 years), margins are squeezed. But another big factor has been...
...take advantage of problems that are common in the area and lend themselves to investigation,” says Ajay K. Singh, Chief Academic Officer at HMSDC and Executive Director of the Dubai Harvard Foundation for Medical Research, which spearheads research efforts in the area. For example, two major issues in the Middle East are autism and diabetes, which alone affects over 25 percent of the population, according to Singh...