Word: samanthas
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...almost tackled you,? she says, pouring a glass of ice water in the granite-countered kitchen. Her five-year-old twins, Trevor and Samantha, play on the floor of the room across the hall, while her husband finishes a phone conversation in the living room. The house is open and clean, decorated with Oriental carpets and contemporary art. She apologizes. One resourceful reporter for the British Sunday Telegraph recently tracked down their address and arrived unannounced, and she's still angry. ?British journalists,? mutters Joseph Wilson as he enters the room. Plame pours him a soda water and cranberry juice...
That anyone would decide to remake Lassie is in itself not so odd. Far worse properties have been rehashed, and at least director Charles Sturridge (Brideshead Revisited, Shackleton) will be classing up the old dog a bit, not only by casting O'Toole, Samantha Morton and Peter Dinklage in major roles but also by taking the story back to its pre--Timmy's-trapped-in-a-well roots. "I never saw the TV show, and I can't recall any of the films," says Sturridge, who hopes to have his movie ready for a Christmas release. "But the original novel...
Much the same could be said of Nora Ephron's movie. It has a good premise: down-on-his-luck movie actor Jack Wyatt (Will Ferrell) agrees to do a remake of the old TV show (1964-72) but casts an unknown to play Samantha so he, playing her husband Darrin, can dominate the program. The role goes to Isabel Bigelow (Kidman), who really is a witch, although she's trying to break the habit. But you can't make a laff riot out of what is essentially a straight man's role, and Jack bombs. Even the family...
...figure of Soviet veneration, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is ahead of Samantha Smith, but the gap may be narrowing. Since her death in a 1985 plane crash, the name of the Maine schoolgirl, who visited the Soviet Union in 1983 at the invitation of Communist Party Chief Yuri Andropov, has been affixed to a Siberian diamond, a hybrid violet developed in Lithuania, a street in Yalta and a five-kopeck postage stamp. The homage reached new heights last week with the dedication of Mount Samantha Smith, a 13,000-ft. peak in the central Caucasus just north of the Turkish...
...Samantha, then 11, won Soviet hearts during a twoweek tour arranged after she sent a letter to Andropov expressing her fears of nuclear war. The Kremlin quickly made her a symbol of the desire of many U.S. citizens to end the nuclear-arms race. That symbol clearly grew all the more poignant--and powerful--with her tragically early death...