Word: reel
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...shinyswords. Want to toss historical accuracy out thewindow? Fine. Want to direct a period piece likean Aerosmith video? Okay. But must you givetalented lead Cate Blanchett such an atrociousscreenplay to work from? Must you so steadfastlyrefuse to permit your title character theslightest bit of development until the last reel?Kapur's film may have conned enough dopey Academymembers to secure it a nomination, but inevitablecomparisons to Shakespeare in Love ("thatother Elizabethan film") will destroy Elizabeth'sOscar prospects--and rightly...
With these words, the seedy and the shiny sides of L.A. reel out of the typewriter of the low-life scandal sheet editor in the movie L.A. Confidential...
That the oft-mentioned fans don't seem to mind is unsurprising--NBC got better ratings on its opening weekend than it did for its 1997 Christmas Day opener, which featured the still-intact Bulls. After all, the NBA's full-court media press always seems to reel in the doting and the deeply needy...
...when Fox shrewdly plucked him from the Hanna-Barbera animation stables. "Stunningly clever" is the way Darnell describes MacFarlane's initial pitch, at which the wunderkind performed all the voices himself. "Two weeks later we ordered 13 episodes, and Seth became a star," says Darnell. A seven-minute presentation reel the network took to last May's "up-front" screenings for advertisers, he adds, "was far and away the funniest thing we showed...
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