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...Speaking of slices, it concerns a waitress named Jenna (well-played by Keri Russell, mixing defensiveness and determination) who has a gift for baking exotically named pies ("Pregnant Miserable Self Pitying Loser" pie is one example), which bring her creative happiness and her customers culinary delirium. The rest of her life is, however, half-baked. She's married to a lout named Earl (Jeremy Sisto) who is a pure feminist nightmare - self-centered, exploitative, whiney and angry - and her waitress colleagues (played by Cheryl Hines and by Shelly herself) are desperately looking for love in all the wrong places. Jenna...
Though he embraces the lovable-loser persona, Brody realizes he escaped a life of typecasting when The O.C. took an unpredicted sharp downward ratings turn two years ago. "We were very fortunate that we got to be on a hit show and not be on it for 10 years. I can't imagine Year 7 being the glory year of a teen soap," he says. He thinks the show's demise was due to stories that moved too quickly ("On other shows, they don't let people kiss for years") and an overreliance on the clever, self-knowing jokes...
...monastery ruins. Its more recent political history, however, has given this Languedoc town a kind of ill fame across France. In 1989, Saint-Gilles became the first town to elect a mayor from the extreme-right National Front party. The National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a perennial loser in presidential elections, has consistently placed first in Saint-Gilles. In short, the town has voted for the kind of xenophobic zealotry that for many years was disavowed by polite French society. But the first round of presidential voting, on April 22, may finally find Saint-Gilles in the political...
...Anywhere else, such setbacks would not harm someone's political reputation for long. But Hong Kong is such a can-do town of winners that just a couple of reversals can be magnified to give you a loser's image. Tsang's supporters say his retreats are a sign of pragmatism. "He is bold and determined," says Choy So-yuk, a Legislative Council member from the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB). "In areas like West Kowloon, he knows when to give up when facing public opposition." Yet for an official who declared...
...mind Harvey Haddix, a good but unexceptional National League hurler, who one day in 1959 turned in arguably the greatest pitching performance in baseball history, twirling 12 perfect innings—36 up, 36 down—before dropping the decision, 1-0, in the 13th. Few remember a loser, and Haddix’s remarkable afternoon has been largely consigned to the margins of baseball lore. Martin’s heroics may end up similarly and unjustifiably overlooked...