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...Franklin once said that the only certain things in life are death and taxes. In my years, I’ve considered the fact that Cookie Monster really only eats cookies among these as well, which makes his recent eccentricity—for health considerations, he now calls cookies a “sometime food”—seem all the more curious...
...there is something troubling about the willful distortion of a hallmark of American childhood just to get a message across. Cookie Monster may not have been as dynamic as Big Bird or Snuffleupagus, but his calling card’s—these cookies, of course—comic consistency was worth even the questionable influence on viewers’ eating habits...
...coming down to Arkansas to compete at Nationals and not clear a bar I know I can clear.’” On her third attempt at 1.80m, Christensen overcame the bar with what Thomas described as a “monster jump.” Christensen then had to clear a height she’s only managed once with the Crimson: 1.83m. On her first go, she narrowly surpassed the bar. “I actually nicked the bar on that jump,” Christensen said. “But it stayed...
...with Sleepwalking, stolidly directed by William Maher from a script by Zac Standford and most significantly co-produced by Charlize Theron (who won her Academy Award for Monster, which is solidly in the tradition of American hopelessness). In the new film she plays a boozing, pot-smoking layabout named Joleen, whose redeeming virtue is a fierce love for her daughter, Tara (AnnaSophia Robb). This, however, does not prevent her from deserting the child to run off with some anonymous dude. She dumps Tara on her brother, James (Nick Stahl), who promptly loses his job and his apartment, and decides...
...notgetting a producer credit, it doesn’t meanthat my job is to be only the actor. I liketo think of myself as a filmmaker.”Theron sat in the producer’s chair forthe first time in the 2003 film “Monster.”Producing, she said, has taught her to bemore fearless in committing to the projectsshe takes on. “There’s a part of methat’s very protective when I get attachedto material or somebody’s vision thatmakes me realize that...