Word: mads
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What is CATE BLANCHETT, far right, looking so mad about? After all, she's the star of Ron Howard's chilling The Missing, his first film since he won an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind. But she has her reasons. One, desperados kidnapped her daughter. Two, her estranged father TOMMY LEE JONES, right (looking extra craggy), who left the family to go live with Apaches for 20 years, is the only man who can help get the child back. And three ... well, The Missing (which opens Nov. 19) is a western, but Blanchett is no cowgirl. "I kept telling...
...punches. There are paramedics and an ambulance waiting, and bouts are stopped if there is too much blood. "The bottom line is that all of these guys have to go back to the office the next day," Lacey says. There's been one knockout - a lawyer named Paul "Mad Manx" Beckett - in 280 rounds. Few egos are badly bruised, though, because no winners are named. "It's intense enough without that," says Paul Damonte, 39, a money broker...
...employers, individuals like he and Bhandari did more to bring Nepal into the modern age and alleviate hardship than any politician, diplomat or revolutionary zealot. "You know, I built this out of a cowshed," he says, gazing out over his empty, impeccably tasteful dream. "Everyone thought I was mad, and perhaps even more so now. But I wasn't, you know. I was a success. And for a time there, it was glittering...
...novel that he sometimes goes astray. Some of the sharpest words concern Clint Smoker's odious tabloid, the Lark. What was in a terrorist group's "dirty bomb?"an editor asks. "Radioactive medical waste, Chief, plus ringworm, West Nile virus, liquid gangrene and a cladding of mad cow." The bombing story is squeezed out by news of a man injured outside a kiddies' swimming pool when he is caught watching too closely and flees with his pants round his ankles. Headline: Pervs Him Right. Yellow Dog isn't just about language; it's also about Amis, and the predicament...
...sneak a smoke, he will run into the girl next door, his Troubled Future Love Interest. That the T.F.L.I. will have a Spoiled Rich Friend, a Mean Jock Boyfriend and a Dark Family Secret. That Ryan will have trouble fitting in with the posh crowd. That he will get mad and punch some inanimate (and animate) objects. And that it will all wrap up in an emotional scene set to a tender pop ballad from a CD on sale at a record chain near...