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...play football. A canny mix of violent sports (for the guys in the audience) and do-gooder heart (for the women), The Blind Side won Sandra Bullock a Golden Globe and may win her an Oscar nomination. What's certain is that the movie's success will green-light a slew of inspirationals. (See the top 10 movies...
...their children different information about how they're doing. Mom may put on a good show for the out-of-towner, who then discounts what the local sibling says. Annie Groeber, 43, a freelance media producer, used to pop up from Washington to see her mother, who would make light of her many health problems. So until Groeber moved to Baltimore to help out more, she had trouble believing what her sister said about their mother's deteriorating condition or the personality changes caused by her medications. "Tracey would say, 'You have no idea what this is like,'" Groeber recalls...
...Transformers movies and starred in Las Vegas for five years, has the reassuring presence of a cuter Tom Hanks, a Greg Kinnear with fewer creases. He and Bell share a domestic glow best suited to TV; their middle-wattage radiance can fill a living room but not quite light up a movie auditorium...
...fickle, pizza-geek public that looks closely at everything from the sourcing of the fior de latte to the presence of "tip sag" issues with the crust. A recent post at Slice, the king of pizza blogs, states, "The crust at Patsy's is so thin that light passes through it. It is soft, the cornicione has an airy inner core. But it was not blistered in the least on my most recent visit.") Even frozen pizza is trying to be better. Pizzeria Romana, with its San Marzano DOP tomatoes and lovingly fermented dough, is better than conventional delivery...
...cajole dubious colleagues and a skeptical Parliament into reluctantly supporting the 2003 invasion of Iraq. An inquiry panel of career diplomats and academics was never likely to dent his composure. ("They're sitting there like chickens," squawked an exasperated audience member during a break from proceedings.) Yet Blair's light grilling still produced a major eye opener: as opponents of the Iraq conflict waited in vain for an apology or some gratifying symptom of inner regret, Blair instead used the platform to argue for opening a new battlefront - against Iran. (See a photo-essay of Saddam Hussein...