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...joke. Alison, granted, is more prominent and complicated here. But for all the lip service Apatow pays to the guy-gal plot of Knocked Up, he invests much more energy and affection in the scenes of Ben with his friends and, emphatically, with Pete - who is the one person in the movie Ben really falls for. It's another old plot: beauty and the beast...
...Cape buffalo aren't usually the stuff of news, but in the last month they've become the heroes of blogs, newsgroups and fan sites, ever since YouTube posted a video that may be the hottest upload in web history that doesn't include a naked famous person or a politician saying something career-ending. The 8-min., 23-sec. clip is a three-act play of attack, counterattack and rescue shot three summers ago in Kruger National Park in South Africa and posted only this May. Since then, it has been viewed more than 3.8 million times...
...things, that the FCC's enforcement was "arbitrary and capricious." But the reason that stood out most was the court's assessment of the national indecency climate: "In recent times, even the top leaders of our government have used variants of these expletives in a manner that no reasonable person would believe referenced 'sexual or excretory organs or activities'"--the definition of indecency that the FCC and the courts have used. The decision cited Bush's remark to British Prime Minister Tony Blair last summer, in front of a live mike, that Syria needed to "get Hizballah to stop doing...
...time when movie stars flocked to photographers for an even more glamorous image, Wallace Seawell was a king. Putting subjects at ease with his gushing enthusiasm ("The aura of the person excites you," he once said), Seawell, below, created shiny, highly stylized portraits, often for celebrity magazines, of Hollywood royalty like Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor...
...enjoy more dealing with your imaginary characters or dealing with people in reality? Do you ever feel imprisoned by your own imagination? -Ju Huang, Stamford, Conn.I prefer the real. The representation of characters in novel is but a thin a slice of what a real person is. It is a kind of trick with smoke and mirrors I can leave my imagination behind when I stand up from my desk...