Word: robert
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...fact, the scent of weed was redolent among Globe finalists. Robert Downey, Jr., who might have been named for his starring role in Iron Man - except that the HFPA, like the other critics groups, has an unwritten rule outlawing blockbuster action pictures - found a place in Supporting Actor, as the doped-out, blackfaced Method actor in Tropic Thunder (also from the Apatow factory). He was joined in that category by another Thunder actor, Tom Cruise. He does a splendidly sulfurous comic turn as a movie studio exec; but, as the Globe committee hardly needs to be reminded, he's also...
...days later, after the Labor Department announced that U.S. employers shed 533,000 jobs in November and 1.2 million since August, some were agitating to ditch the R word and replace it with the more ominous D one. "Shall we call it a depression now?" asked former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. "The threat of a widespread depression is now real and present," argued the University of Maryland's Peter Morici...
DIED Because of hundreds of roles in TV, film and theater, character actor Robert Prosky, 77, had one of those "I know that guy" faces. He put it to good use with parts in the TV drama Hill Street Blues, the film Mrs. Doubtfire and the play Glengarry Glen Ross...
...spent the past few months trying to make the rules as liberal as possible," says Robert Willens, an accounting and tax expert in New York. "They have been decreasing corporate taxes pretty consistently." (See pictures of the recession...
...Clearly, the charges announced today reveal that the office of the governor has become nothing more than a vehicle for self-enrichment, unrestricted by party affiliation and taking Illinois politics to a new low." - Robert D. Grant, special agent in charge of the Chicago office...