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Interviewing Grant on Wednesday's The Daily Show, Jon Stewart mistakenly called the film What Happened to the Morgans? Stewart might have asked what happened to romantic comedy, once the crown jewel of Hollywood genres. At best, nothing new; at worst, it died of exhaustion. The Morgans' writer-director, Marc Lawrence, has no special gift for character nuance or witty dialogue. To him, rom-com is simply the recycling of a tired fugitive-couple premise from other bad movies (My Blue Heaven, Witless Protection) and the application of the genre's most formulaic shtick-in-trade: forcing an uncomfortable intimacy...
...hands of director Jean-Marc Vallee and screenwriter Julian Fellowes, The Young Victoria adheres - mostly - to history. It's romanticized, with Victoria's beloved Albert (Rupert Friend) a more eager suitor than history indicates. And the movie may give British political scholars fits, because Lord Melbourne, the 58-year-old Prime Minister who coached Victoria in politics and queenly affairs, is played here by the dashing and quite youthful Paul Bettany, excising 20 years and at least as many pounds from Lord M.'s real person. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...great comebacks in sports. What if, after Tiger's hiatus, he emerges contrite, marriage repaired, and his game better than ever? Woods, who earns more than $100 million annually in endorsements, could actually become more valuable after this mess. "It'll be a tale of redemption and forgiveness," says Marc Ganis, president of SportsCorp, a consulting firm. "I guarantee you that somebody has already written the freaking script." (See pictures of Tiger Woods' best victory moments...
Some 134 years and a $75 million face-lift later, the buildings remain an extremely desirable address, inhabited this time by upmarket fashion labels such as Marc Jacobs and Chloe, and a hotel, W Istanbul, tel: (90-212) 381 2121. One of the boutique chain's two European properties (the other is in Barcelona), W Istanbul is a curious mix of bling - crystals and ambient pink lighting feature heavily - and classic Ottoman design elements such as sleek marble hammam-style bathrooms and colors of rich chocolate, cream and dark red. (See 25 authentic Asian experiences...
...studies and accomplishment." "The scandal over Jean Sarkozy was a very personalized example of the way many of Sarkozy's actions are not only displeasing the public, but particularly alienating his base of conservative voters who no longer feel he's defending their values or political interest," says Jean-Marc Lech, co-president of the Ipsos polling group, which puts the President's approval rating at just 39%, down from more than 60% when he was first elected. "His biggest slump has come among conservatives seeing aspects of that activity they don't want any part of - with some...