Word: shelfful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first typed the code that brought Lara into being nine years ago, traveled to the London set to give his blessing. Smith was impressed that Croft Manor's Old Library was stuffed with genuine, dusty old books on archaeology that visitors to the set could actually pick off the shelf and read...
...Shelflessness refers to the short shelf life of movies when the moment of hyped release has passed, the process whereby a film may rapidly be drained of all the vitality and interest that made it seem so urgent when it came out. We wander the aisles, staring disconsolately at titles past their prime - video leftovers, yesterday's gardenias...
...those actors who is interesting to watch, but, gaudy decapitations aside, "Gladiator" advances unapologetically from cliché to cliché (the "Spartacus"-meets-"Sleepy Hollow" note, the British Romans, the decadent incestuous homoerotic touches dragged in from "Spartacus," "Quo Vadis" and elsewhere) and on the video shelf, is never going to be more than routine escapist entertainment defaulted to when you can't find something else. Same with "Titanic" two years ago. The winner this year should have been "Traffic...
...first typed the code that brought Lara into being nine years ago, traveled to the London set to give his blessing. Smith was impressed that Croft Manor's Old Library was stuffed with genuine, dusty old books on archaeology that visitors to the set could actually pick off the shelf and read...
...even thinking about starting a family. "I think I'm fertile," he says. "I'd love to have kids. I'd love to have someone to screw up." Ashley isn't in right now, but evidence of her is all over the living room. On one shelf is a textbook on organic chemistry; hanging on the wall near the door like one of Hannibal Lecter's victims is a life-size paper model of the internal organs of a human being. Hmm. Maybe this isn't the best vibe for a rock interview. "Let's get out of here," says...