Word: leopolds
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...KATE & LEOPOLD...
...with Kate & Leopold, in which the dashing but impecunious third Duke of Albany (Jackman) is zapped from 1876 New York (he is in town reluctantly seeking a rich bride) to contemporary Manhattan, where he falls for Kate McKay, a hard-charging market researcher. His transportation is provided by her dreamy amateur scientist ex-boyfriend (Schreiber). Some of his education in contemporary rudeness is supplied by her brother (Meyer), a hilariously earnest, perpetually out-of-work Method actor...
...them; Kate needs them) that director (and co-writer) Mangold's film works best. There are excellent jokes about everything from television to pooper scooping, and given that this holiday film season has come up more than a little short on love and laughter, one can easily forgive Kate & Leopold the slightly excessive lengths and complications to which it goes in search of those rare commodities. --R.S. THE MAJESTIC...
...DIED. LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR, 95, first president of an independent Senegal; in Normandy, France. A poet of negritude, a celebration of blackness, Senghor persuaded French President Charles de Gaulle to grant Senegal independence in 1960. He led the republic until 1980, when he became the first African President to retire voluntarily...
...group of Israeli students who represented themselves as selling art but seemed uncommonly interested in gaining access to restricted spaces. Government sources also say there is an ongoing counterespionage investigation of certain marketing companies that lure young Israelis to the U.S., and may also infiltrate a few Mossad agents. Leopold counters: "Why would they put 11 very obvious young Israelis together in the middle of rural Ohio? Any suggestion of a connection to a national security threat in this case is absurd...