Word: sharked
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...single-dad clown fish, voiced by Albert Brooks, in the new Pixar astonishment Finding Nemo. Brooks says that when a reporter on a junket described this fish father as overprotective, "I stood up and said, 'Overprotective? If your wife and almost all your children were eaten by a shark, you wouldn't be overprotective?' Then I realized--I'm yelling about a fish...
...risk that kills in a particularly awful way, like shark attacks, is scarier than one which kills in a less dreadful way. Fear of cancer and the hazards that cause cancer—radiation, industrial chemicals and so on—is informed by dread rather than rationality. And yet heart disease, which evokes less fear in many people, kills roughly 25 percent more Americans each year than does cancer...
...Reginald Grant, 47, excelled in traditionally male, high-earning fields. A former Marine and defensive back for the New York Jets, he segued smoothly into subsequent careers in financial planning and software sales. During the tech boom, Grant co-founded two sports-related Internet-based companies. "I was a shark," he says. "You eat what you kill." But after the tech bubble vaporized, he found himself staring at a billboard advertising a teaching fellowship in Los Angeles. A year later, he's teaching honors English to eighth-graders in the tough Watts neighborhood. He makes $36,000; in tech...
...might be a while before that seedier side of Angelina Jolie appears. She’s already working on two projects. Beyond Borders, a love story with Clive Owen, will come out later this year. She is also lending her voice to a star-filled animated film called Shark Slayer, slated to premiere in November...
...Summer of the Shark...