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...Silly and comedic" is a pretty good description of one of the new things Paltrow is trying: directing a short film. She wrote the film for a Glamour magazine project called Reel Moments with her childhood friend Mary Wigmore (with whom she used to throw toys off the balcony of her home into the neighbor's chimney). Dealbreaker details the reasons a young woman breaks up with various boyfriends. The climactic scene involves a man, a bathroom visit and unused toilet paper. Shakespeare in Love it ain't. "Basically it's filthy," says the auteur. "Poop filthy." But Paltrow says...
...worms and a lazy creek may be enough to get some people hooked on fishing, but serious anglers need more of a challenge. Fishermen are taking off to the globe's remotest rivers for rod-and-reel battles that send the adrenaline rushing as fast as the water they're wading in. But wilderness trips are not for amateurs: "You need to go with an experienced outfit?some of these fish bite back hard," says Charles Jardine, a coach for England's national fly-fishing teams. Here are three of the most pristine?and challenging?locales...
...worms and a lazy creek may be enough to get some people hooked on fishing, but serious anglers need more of a challenge. Fishermen are taking off to the globe's remotest rivers for rod-and-reel battles that send the adrenaline rushing as fast as the water they're wading in. But wilderness trips are not for amateurs: "You need to go with an experienced outfit?some of these fish bite back hard," says Charles Jardine, a coach for England's national fly-fishing teams. Here are three of the most pristine?and challenging?locales...
...FISH TOO Concerned that angling might seem drab to the Xbox generation, manufacturers are designing snazzy stuff that is child friendly. The $30 JetCast 3.0, a plastic intro pole, lets even the smallest novices push a button to eject a line 30 ft. out over the water, then reel in a wriggling prize. A safety feature ensures that it doesn't launch inadvertently. This toylike tool suits tykes, not teens...
Enough, at least, to reel off four consecutive games, take the second set 7-5, and knot the overall score...