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...says Star. "She is very likable, and it comes from a real place." Silverstone was drawn by Star's track record of complex female characters and the appeal of playing someone who "goes around sprinkling love dust on everybody." Indeed, you can see a parallel between beatific buttinsky Kate and Silverstone, a cheerfully proselytizing animal-rights do-gooder who eats no meat, eggs or dairy. (On the show, Kate is a vegetarian and won't wear leather...
...said that foster care in China is parallel to the American notion of adoption in that it means finding a permanent home for the child...
...hope they’re obeying the speed limit,” he commented, as construction workers began a complicated set of turns to parallel-park the Greek revival next to its new foundation...
...attention to logos or images of the studios,” he says. “In other movies, I pay attention to other things that would be emblematic; so, when I look at French films I work on images of the state and cultural institutions that parallel whatever the production apparatus...
...first-ever World No. 1, and Justine Henin-Hardenne won its first Grand Slam titles at the French and U.S. Opens. But their on-court success has been overshadowed by a rivalry that smells nothing like team spirit. The rocky relations between Clijsters, 20, and Henin-Hardenne, 21, roughly parallel the dividing lines in Belgian society. Clijsters, from the Flemish-speaking north, and Henin-Hardenne, from the French-speaking south, have long been cordial, never close. As they've risen to the top of the tennis world, relations have chilled. Henin-Hardenne has won four of their last five head...