Word: leos
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...late years of the Tang dynasty, an insurgency has arisen, led by the mysterious Flying Daggers group. Government officers Leo (Andy Lau, of Infernal Affairs) and Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro) are assigned to stamp out the conspiracy. Their first stop is a bordello, where the madam tells Leo she has a lovely blind girl, Mei (Zhang Ziyi), to dance for him--a dance of love, deception and death...
...Martin Scorsese, in which DiCaprio plays a historically inspired, convention-bucking protagonist. These are serious gigs--De Niro-when-he-was-young-and-good gigs. DiCaprio has done three of them in four years--and nothing else. Scorsese, who was recruited by DiCaprio to direct The Aviator, believes that Leo "is one of the few people with the emotional range" to play those kinds of bravura roles convincingly. John C. Reilly, DiCaprio's friend and co-star in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Gangs and The Aviator, particularly admires his buddy's restraint. "After Titanic, he could have cranked...
...also got a major boost from the United Steel Workers of America union (uswa), which made major contract concessions to Ross to help get the business underway. So far, uswa seems to view Mittal's move as positive. Says union president Leo Gerrard: "Larger, stronger steel companies benefit our members and retirees." And outside analysts see a good fit between Mittal's surfeit of raw materials and ISG's demand for them. Raju Daswani, head of research at industry analysis firm Metal Bulletin Research, says: "Mittal [has] a lot of raw material production, but not much exposure to the high...
...Leo’s fifth album with the Pharmacists continues in the strengths of his first four: sharp hooks, relentless energy and excellent songwriting. Though there’s little innovation here, Leo manages once again to fill his sound with such sweet guitar tone that the listener is hooked from the outset. Few artists today aim for this kind of warm power-pop, and Leo shows himself as a songwriter still willing to rock out. As in all his work, such as his pre-Rx group Chisel, he shows himself as a teeth-clenched, pretension-free workhorse of indie...
When Leo’s vocals are joined by the band’s in the final moments of the “Walking to Do,” we get the sense of a coherent force in music today. No other artists are writing songs like Ted Leo, and with Shake the Sheets he proves further it’s an important niche he fills...