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...last year with Intolerable Cruelty, a commercial failure even with George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones in a romantic comedy. "I don't know that we want to do something again where that was the obligation," says Joel. They cast Hanks because he could pull off the potentially over-the-top role of a classics-obsessed Southern criminal. "Tom can do that sort of stuff without it being shtick," says Ethan, 46, sitting with his brother at a Los Angeles diner...
...action-packed first half proves more entertaining than the second—when the bards engage in a poetry competition that deals with topics like whether Aeschylus or Euripides uses a more inventive meter. While The Frogs adds diversion with tap-dances, drag muses and impressively over-the-top poetry recitations in the second half, the descent to hell is inherently more dynamic...
...album’s standout track, “Southwood Plantation Road,” “No one’s found a safe way through one yet.” His penchant for the Homeric simile is nowhere more apparent than on the slightly over-the-top “International Small Arms Traffic Blues,” with its memorable comparison “Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania … there is a shortage in the blood supply, but there is no shortage of blood.” Tallahassee?...
...arrest of six animal rights activists for indecent exposure during PETA’s “Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” rally is only the most recent addition to the organization’s long list of over-the-top advocacy positions. During the Harvard Square protest, PETA Vice President Dan Mathews and five others (including one undergraduate) frolicked almost completely naked in a bed to make a point (kind of) about the horror of fur. Mathews had called the protest as a hands-on prelude to his scheduled appearance later that afternoon in Religion...
...difference between the two nights was threefold: First, the penalties on Saturday were aggressive, not over-the-top. Second, the penalty kill was exceptional. And third, Grumet-Morris played one of his best games of the season...