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...coolest thing Tommy Lee Jones does is ... nothing. Nothing, anyway, that Stanislavski could detect. (He never took an acting class. Didn't matter. Within weeks of graduating from Harvard, he landed a role in a Broadway play.) Jones just puts that rugged, West Texas face on the screen and observes the world with a rattlesnake's poise. He does watching a whole lot better than most actors do doing...
...with a novel sight or sound, he or she can't help focusing on it. By rapidly changing colors, sounds and motions, videos for children effectively force a baby's brain to stay at attention. If his or her gaze wanders, the action quickly rivets it back to the screen...
...bright side for Geely and Chery is that Americans are growing accustomed to higher-end Chinese products, such as flat-screen TVs and laptop PCs. Art Spinella, president of CNW Marketing Research, surveyed consumers to see if they would consider buying a Chinese car. About 36% said they would. "That level of consideration is twice what it was for Korean brands 10 years ago," he says. Mel Rapton, the California car dealer, figures that a combo of 100,000-mile warranties and cut-rate pricing will get Chinese cars moving. "It's a pretty big gamble," the 77-year...
...actor doesn't need to think up a picture. He can just take it over, make its personality his. Hustle & Flow might sputter without the seductive screen intelligence of Terrence Howard. An actor can anchor a movie, as Maria Bello does in A History of Violence, or steal it, like Gong Li in Memoirs of a Geisha...
...that revs up next Monday with the Golden Globes and peaks on March 5, Oscar night, some of the actors celebrated here will hear their names called; some won't. We're not giving out statuettes, just thank-you notes to seven people who wrote their artistry on the screen...