Word: sheen
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...posted Oct. 8, Paris gets tips from the greatest Fake President of our time, Jed Bartlet - better known to those of us who don't obsessively watch West Wing DVDs as actor Martin Sheen. The BFFs share a quiet moment at the kitchen table as a party rages elsewhere in Paris' mansion. Wearing what appears to be a "transvestite Paris" Halloween costume, Hilton asks Sheen for help crafting her "FoPo" (foreign policy, silly) and economic platforms. Citing the current global economic crisis as "the biggest Depression since The Notebook," she gives a stiff, rehearsed stance on what should be done...
...region's booming economies sought out new sounds to grace their suddenly affordable turntables and cassette players. Older listeners, bored with rock, began to trade up to West Coast jazz fusion - a connoisseur's form that mingled jazz, pop, R&B and funk, setting store above all on sheen and virtuosity. Although derided by jazz traditionalists, the genre had an exotic sophistication to middle-class Asian ears - and Jarreau was its house vocalist, his marvel of a voice swooping out of the speakers in Hong Kong penthouses and Tokyo wine bars...
...drop them in the world of Washington, D.C., espionage, then keep ratcheting down their emotional IQs. They turn Frances McDormand (Mrs. Joel Coen off-screen) into a mad-man loser with a severe self-image problem. The characters' lives get more desperate as the camera style retains its affectless sheen...
Despite falling well short in his brief run for the Democratic nomination, Biden was thought to have performed well and with discipline in what seemed like an endless series of Democratic debates. Most memorable was the line with which he took the sheen off one-time GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani: "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb and 9/11." Democrats realize that with Biden, they are likely to see some occasional errant punches. "I hope so," says one Obama adviser. "Because that will mean he is swinging...
...CHARLIE SHEEN named TV's highest-paid male actor...