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...seem a little disheartened that the slow, feminine sensuality they envisioned is giving way to flat-out canine thrust. This becomes the final take?because Nonzee has gotten what he wanted from the start. He knew the actresses would be uncomfortable with a raunchy scene, so he made pretend he was improvising...
...Oscar host's job is to make inside jokes - about the industry, its most prominent employees and the stately ludicrousness of the event itself - that nearly a billion viewers around the world can pretend to understand. This year, that task fell to Martin, the first WASP to chair the event since David Letterman in 1995 (bad omen) and the first white-haired guy since Johnny Carson (1979-82 and 1984). Indeed, Martin's persona is a gloss on the old "Tonight Show" star; for 30 years he's played a doofus Carson, a smug buffoon. "Please," he said during...
...offers a few pointers for approaching women. "The first thing to do is to look like you're having a great time with your friends. So the ladies know you're there for fun. Then you look for eye contact. And if all of that fails, you can always pretend you're really drunk and get close that way. If she's interested, you go home together." Quite a plan. He looks around. Nothing...
...society has not yet progressed to a level that it no longer judges people by their looks. So, don't pretend that...
...approach to life for many years has been ascetic, robust and provisional. Every mortal lives with the fact of his own death. Most people are not disabled by the thought; they are able to forget about it, on most days. We pretend we are immortal. And of course, we are--for the moment. People with a history of heart attacks, like me and Cheney, do, however, listen to the engine more carefully than most drivers. We cock an ear inward...