Word: momentous
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There comes a moment in almost every movie romance when words no longer suffice and the music must rise to the occasion. From the initial meet-cutes to the heated arguments and all those third-act sprints to win back the girl, a movie's sound track often does the heavy lifting, providing all the needed passion, heartache and poetry. The romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer, with a sound track ranging from Wolfmother to Carla Bruni, hits all the right notes, with a few surprising ones thrown in. (Hall & Oates?) TIME talked to (500) Days music supervisor Andrea...
...sometimes the best song for a given moment isn't the best song for that given moment? That's the challenge sometimes: to find a song that makes everyone happy, that we all can agree on, that you can get on your budget and that gets at the emotions. Not as easy as it sounds...
...version of the movie, he shows it to every funny person in L.A. and asks for notes. "Judd is like a feedback machine," says Feig. "He wants feedback of the person he doesn't even like or trust. And he's got the brain trust of comedy at the moment, old and new." The next stop is test audiences - 10 for Funny People. "We had a debate over how much is too much for a comedian to talk about his penis and testicles," Apatow says. "The answer there is, No amount is too much for an audience. The F-word...
...unfortunate that he felt unable to continue to express what he truly felt. He was forced to revise and turn what was an objectively true statement - that it's stupid to arrest a man in his own house for being rude - into a vague "teachable moment" about nothing particular. Then he invited Gates and Crowley to the White House for beers...
...more Americans learn about how Washington proposes to cure that system, the more skeptical they are about the whole enterprise. The more the public hears, the less it seems to understand. What Obama and his team also know is that fixing health care has become not only a defining moment for his presidency but also a test of his leadership. (See 10 health-care-reform players...