Word: leos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...started with Bantam's astonishing sales of Iacocca, more than 2 million copies in hardcover and still the No. 2 nonfiction best seller after eight months as No. 1. Indeed, the only hardcover that is selling better is another autobiographical success story from Bantam, Yeager, by Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos...
...Leo is one of the most resolute women I've ever met. A veteran of one of Johannesburg's largest aids orphanages and trained in child care, she looks after my 18-month-old daughter while my wife and I are at work - and she can be just as firm with adults as she is soft with kids. Six years ago, when she discovered the house she and her two sons were renting was up for sale, she bid for it at auction and won. But when she went to see the loan officer at the local branch...
...chief architect of Britain's "New Labour" strategy, Peter Mandelson was Tony Blair's most valued adviser. As E.U. Commissioner for Trade, he now focuses on Europe's competitiveness. He spoke last week in Brussels to Time's Leo Cendrowicz - but only until a phone call from 10 Downing Street interrupted the interview ... The European Union is facing a crisis of confidence. How can the E.U. make itself more relevant in an increasingly complex environment? It's a crisis of direction rather than a crisis of identity. It reflects two things. Firstly, people take for granted that...
...actresses: to the Broken Flowers brigade of Lange, Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Tilda Swinton, Alexis Dziena, Chloe Sevigny and Pell James; or to the Sin City sorority that includes Jessica Alba, Carlo Gugino, Rosario Dawson, Brittany Murphy and Jaime King. Our choice is the Three Burials tandem of Melissa Leo and January Jones: one strong and maternally sexy, the other brutalized but unbowed, each so arresting, the source of so much of the film's wayward life, that The Three Burials inevitably sags when they disappear about an hour into...
...studios briskly recycled many of their properties. RKO filmed Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely as an episode of the low-budget Falcon series in 1942 and then remade it as an A picture (Murder, My Sweet) two years later. In predigital days, directors like Cecil B. DeMille, Leo McCarey and Alfred Hitchcock didn't go back and "improve" their old movies, as Lucas did with Star Wars or Spielberg with E.T. They simply remade them 15 or 20 years later...