Word: mel
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...suspicion of driving under the influence. He posted $15,000 bail, then was released and ordered to appear in court March 19. The movie mafioso's arrest is just the latest DUI among the rich and famous: Nicole Richie, Saturday Night Live's Tracy Morgan, Haley Joel Osment and Mel Gibson were all charged after teetering roadside recently. Gang, when you can afford a limo, party night's the time...
...during sex, Justice Janice Rogers Brown, the lone dissenter, raised that very question. "The majority relies heavily on [the defendant's] failure to desist immediately," she wrote in her minority opinion. "But it does not tell us how soon would have been soon enough. Ten seconds? Thirty? A minute?" Mel Feit, executive director of the National Center for Men, a male-advocacy group based in Old Bethpage, N.Y., says biology is a factor. "At a certain point during arousal, we don't have complete control over our ability to stop," he says. "To equate that with brutal, violent rape weakens...
...make a comedy on almost any subject - as Preston Sturges (and even Mel Brooks) have proved. But there's no spark in this one. And no sparkle in Garner's playing. She's an attractive young woman, but her energy is low and her mood is endlessly wistful. Olyphant seems more of a male model than an actor, and the writer-director, Susannah Grant, does not know how to stir her actors up comedically or romantically...
...SCORSESE Surely this is the year the six-time nominee for Best Director gets the prize he has so richly deserved for more than three decades. MARTIN SCORSESE We're talking Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York. So just give him the Oscar already! MEL GIBSON He's flawed, but Apocalypto was still one of the year's best foreign-language films made by an aging action star. BEST ACTOR LEONARDO DICAPRIO, Blood Diamond RYAN GOSLING, Half Nelson PETER O'TOOLE, Venus WILL SMITH, The Pursuit of Happyness FOREST WHITAKER, The Last King of Scotland...
...Radiance is the word," Joe Ferrer, a Time editor of the 80s and 90s who is Mel's nephew, wrote to me in an email just after Hepburn's death. "As a person, too. Though I don't think I saw her more than once after the divorce, she maintained a warm and sturdy bond with my mother. She was an exceptional person, kind, caring, involved and strong. She was someone you wished you could be like - a person who, so far as I could see, was even better than she appeared...