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...Eurail pass that lets you tour a continent's worth of psychological landscapes. Trying to take in all of them in one sitting can induce the armchair equivalent of museum fatigue; this is a volume built for browsing. You can get halfway through a story, put it down, pick it back up again and ask, Where was I? Oh, right - Denmark. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...Association's President, Joey Berlin, has authored no criticism that I could find on line. His one published comment was a letter to the Los Angeles Times defending the sanctity of the press junket, in which the studios pay for reporters to come to Hollywood, pick up some swag and spend a few minutes chatting up stars and directors. Berlin extolled "the hard-working journalists who spend up to 40 or more weekends a year on the 'junket circuit,' gathering whatever juicy morsels they can to satisfy the insatiable appetite for news about Hollywood." And then they get to give...
...show is actually undoing age-old stereotypes and replacing them, for better or worse, with a progressive, and even revolutionary, model of prima donna that is more Lady Gaga than Victoria Gotti ... The trash-talking, overly tanned ladies of Jersey Shore pick fistfights, refuse to cook or clean up and shuffle around in slippers and sweats while the guys in the house preen and put on lip gloss...
...much of that. It's funny they pick on certain people. I know that I worked with James [McAvoy] on this film. And they don't bug him either. Yet they bother Britney Spears. It's weird. But you go to the supermarket. You live your life normally. If you do that, they have no interest whatsoever. (See pictures of Helen Mirren on stage and screen...
...eliminated - and not just by a pink slip. "It's a military system," Saviano tells TIME in Rome as one of the plainclothes cops guarding him stands nearby. "The farm and factory owners employ the Mafia caporali to bring the workers. The immigrants wait on the roads, the caporali pick them up and take them to the work. If they complain, they get killed." (See the top 10 news stories...