Word: simonal
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Nobody Does It Better," Carly Simon Carole Bayer Sager's words are legitimately sexy, while the music by Marvin Hamlisch uses every cliché in the composer's arsenal to build to a syrupy but irresistible coda...
...Days Later,” but his ability to create fully-realized worlds within his films is still on full display. The slums of Mumbai are a brightly colored fantasy world in which boys ride on top of trains and industry is but a cold and brutal intrusion.Writer Simon Beaufoy turns the novel “Q and A” by Vikas Swarup into a structurally fascinating screenplay, but the film’s overarching influence seems to be Charles Dickens. Dickens’s London has given way to Mumbai, an overpopulated city torn between poverty and globalization...
Danny Boyle, the director of Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Millions collaborates with Simon Beaufoy, the screenwriter of The Full Monty and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - surely we're in for some all-British shenanigans. But no, this is a social epic set in modern India, when Bombay became Mumbai and the new techno-wealth began to contrast ever more sharply with the crushing, enduring poverty of the masses...
...Ukraine and Hungary, which holds high levels of debt in foreign currencies, Bulgaria, Romania and the Baltic states have all been cited as potential candidates for rescue packages down the road. No bank operating in the region is immune. "This is a systemic crisis where everything gets sold," says Simon Maughan, an analyst at brokerage MF Global in London. "It doesn't matter whether you are less exposed to Hungary and more exposed to Poland. Eventually it's going to catch up with everybody...
...favorite interface is Karaoke Party karaokeparty.com) where all the songs are free. (Granted, there are only 160 of them.) Since deep down, most karaoke addicts really want to be told how good they are, the site uses a Simon Cowellesque algorithm to score your performance. Co-founder Mats Fors says that after he and his partners managed complex websites for banks, building a karaoke site was easy. "We saw the opportunity for a good karaoke solution," he says...