Word: natch
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...season: the surprising return of Julia Louis-Dreyfus's "Watching Ellie" (possibly without its real-time structure); a two-hour season (and probably series) finale of "Friends"; and - perhaps the biggest news of the week - the return of "Battle of the Network Stars" (using only NBC stars, natch...
...just-released action blockbuster The Scorpion King, in which he plays Mathayus, reprising the role he briefly assumed in The Mummy Returns. He spends the entire film in brown leather battle gear, impaling and slashing his enemies, except when he stops to have sex with a sorceress, after which, natch, her psychic powers are diminished...
...plays a successful, childless comedian in Los Angeles (named Bernie Mac, natch) who takes in his sister's three kids because she's on drugs and about to lose them to the state. Bewildered but determined to do the right thing, he turns out to be a soft touch, if gruff. Driving the kids home from the airport, he breaks the ice by asking, "Anybody want a big-ass doughnut?" Later, he walks them through his spacious house, ticking off items they're not allowed to touch. "Don't get me wrong," he says. "This is our home. But this...
...everywhere," he says. "This was Asia's most important entrepot." It was the closest thing to a free port in the medieval world: the local rulers, known as Zamorins, charged 6-10% import duty on all items. They provided traders with guest houses and servants - and the odd courtesan, natch - and guaranteed the security of all goods. Varrier encourages me to think of it as a 15th century Hong Kong, complete with its own seamy Wanchai district...
...real estate developer, natch. That's why the Indio water-pump operator, who maintains the machinery that taps the city's aquifer, can't help muttering expletives while staring at Shadow Lake, a string-bean-shaped body of water that appeared last year. "I've lived here 50 years," says Wameling, "and I never expected to see someone waste water on a lake in the middle of the desert...