Word: midnighters
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...retail price of diesel and gasoline by just 9% since January 2007. (Over the same period, the price in the U.S. has jumped 77%.) Observers say China will probably stand pat at the pump until after the Beijing Olympic Games in August. That could keep Chinese happily burning the midnight oil - and keep global oil prices high, since growing demand from China has contributed significantly to crude's price run-up in the past few years, according to economists. It's too early to say, but the recent spike in oil prices could be another nail in the coffin...
...Dude (Jeff Bridges), Lebowski's sloppy hero. "You said it man," Jesus barks at one point, trying to intimidate The Dude, "Nobody f---s with the Jesus." It is a line of dialogue still repeated today by giggling college students in their dorms - or waiting in line outside midnight screenings - and it seemed to play a factor in the naming of You Don't Mess with the Zohan...
...Hers was a red-tailed snake named Luna. We stroked it. We were ready for anything. It was our last Saturday night as college students, and we had chosen to spend it at a peculiar ritual, the midnight meeting of cinema and fishnet stockings and social castoffs that is known as “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” But first we needed our tickets, and answer if Luna the snake could...
...Long before the official midnight showtime, those who know are pulling on knee-high boots and leopard-fuzz bikinis. My friends and I came prepared, mostly. Between us we had a French maid apron, lace-up ankle boots, and a dress which ended, depending on one’s walking speed, somewhere around the crotch...
...Traditionally, when a film opens, young males come more quickly than the several generations of female this one is aimed at. But SATC - a continuation of the HBO babes-in-bonding series that ran for six seasons and ended in 2004 - is already sold out for many of its midnight shows tonight and evening performances on Friday. .. The film is clearly a lifeline for the Sex-deprived. By Sunday, if the early buzz translates into huge ticket sales, Hollywood may have to consider a new truism: there's instant girl power at the movies...