Word: sheets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Grosse Pointe Blank), on TV shows (Ellen, The Larry Sanders Show) and on stage (Neil LaBute's Fat Pig), the attention from the Entourage gig has landed Piven, who turns 41 next month, his first lead role in a studio film. "I was always No. 5 on the call sheet, No. 1 in your heart," he says. But with the upcoming Smokin' Aces, a mob movie in which he plays what he calls another "flawed Jew," Piven got top billing over co-stars Ben Affleck and Andy Garcia. His days of coming in on short notice to bring some instant...
...Economy, able to innovate virtually overnight. Unfortunately, in life, our strengths can become our weaknesses. Just as the dark side of charisma is narcissism, the dark side of innovation is fraud. Enron fell victim to both. Our finance, accounting and legal departments pushed the use of off-balance-sheet vehicles over the line that separates creative transactions from fraudulent ones. Our corporate culture became narcissistic; we were focused on our image, not our customers or our products. The most alarming revelation is how easy it was to co-opt the outside world into joining us as we sang our praises...
...life. We meet Thaw as a small boy, already drawn to the world of crayon and paper. Our introduction to Thaw’s world finds him quietly, childishly, absorbed in creation: “Duncan Thaw drew a blue line along the top of a sheet of paper and a brown line along the bottom...
...levees, but, she says, "I do have faith in the Corps' need not to be embarrassed again." As a result, she and her husband John are finishing repairs. They have gutted their house, put in hurricane-resistant windows and listened, yes, listened, to make sure every roofing sheet got the required six nails. But that doesn't mean they're not prepared to leave if they have to. Trippett was once blasé about hurricanes. Not anymore. "Even if it's a Category 1," she says, "we're out of here...
...said to be the highest-paid entertainer in Europe and was certainly among its most photographed?inspiring fashion designers and a frenzy of suitors (she received around 1,500 marriage proposals). Baker was active in the French resistance in World War II?often smuggling coded messages on sheet music?and remained a lifelong fighter against racism. She even prefigured the multiracial family of Hollywood star Angelina Jolie by adopting 12 children from varying ethnic backgrounds, affectionately dubbing them her "Rainbow Tribe...