Word: pryce
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Change is afoot at his ad agency, Sterling Cooper. A British firm has bought it out, cutting head count by a third and playing the remaining employees against one another. One of the new overlords, financial officer Lane Pryce (Jared Harris), holds the newly tightened purse strings with a chilly distance from the staff and from the American illusion-weaving that the ad business is built on. Discussing client London Fog (the raincoat maker), he dryly notes, "There is no London fog. Never was. It was the coal dust from the industrial era. Charles Dickens and whatnot...
...Sandler plays Skeeter Bronson, son of a one-time hotel magnate (Jonathan Pryce) who lost his empire to Barry Nottingham (Richard Griffiths, slimmed down a few stone since his History Boys stint). Now Nottingham is grooming the snidely Kendall (Guy Pearce) as his heir, while employing Skeeter in the lowly capacity of light-bulb changer. At the hotel his ally is do-nothing Mickey (Russell Brand); his other adversary is the officious Aspen (Lucy Lawless of Xena renown); and the potential prize and troublemaker is Nottingham's sexy daughter Violet (Teresa Palmer). When Skeeter's sister (Courteney Cox) goes...
...resignation bug has also spread to the House, where three senior Republicans--former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, former Republican Conference chairwoman Deb Pryce and seven-term veteran Ray LaHood of Illinois--are among the 18 who have had enough. One more big Republican retirement (or scandal), and Democrats may start thinking that Christmas has come early...
...battleground races went blue. Top G.O.P. leaders fought off tough challenges in New York and Ohio. Tough pol Tom Reynolds of upstate New York threw off his entanglement in the Mark Foley scandal to beat populist millionaire Jack Davis, and Ohio's Deborah Pryce, a centrist in the House leadership, pulled out her tough race against Mary Jo Kilroy. And in the tight House race in Connecticut's fourth district, Chris Shays was leading Diane Farrell in a death-defying G.O.P. win in hostile territory...
...Politics is Local in Ohio Republican incumbent Deborah Pryce faces an uphill battle in her bellwether midwestern district, a clear sign that this is a very different kind of midterm election