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...With its slick black homescreen with a new-agey world map, this website is more reminiscent of a swanky bachelor’s pad rather than your mother’s travel agent’s office. This site seems to prey only the most cosmopolitan of travelers and temptresses, as most of its deals are for international flights only...
...Bestselling author James Patterson, with co-writer Peter de Jonge, turns out yet another hefty novel, "The Beach House" (Little, Brown; June 10). PW calls it, "a slick, vastly enjoyable yet far-fetched thriller - i.e. typical Patterson. Its hero is a Columbia University law student, Jack Mullen, who's out to avenge the death of his younger brother, Peter, found dead on the Amagansett, L.I., property of the immensely wealthy Neubauer family, a few miles from Jack and Peter's Montauk home. The cops say Peter drowned; a glance at the corpse tells Jack that his brother was beaten...
...council leaders say they believe slick postcards, a flashy website and a headlining band that they couldn’t afford without Summers’ money will draw more students than ever to the event...
...strategies reflect a trauma in her own life. With men she's the sexual aggressor, jumping on her new partner and, when the party's over, literally pushing him out of bed. When she builds a case against two boys for a vicious killing, she wants to destroy the slick one (Ryan Gosling) who reminds her of her brutal ex-husband, and save the sensitive one (Michael Pitt) who reminds her of herself. Bullock powerfully blends and isolates these aspects of Cassie to show that her strengths and her frailties have a single source...
...letters of commendation--one a bit more heartfelt than the other--are in order for two ambitious films about people trying to stay in control when they are at work or out of it. The more conventional of the two, Changing Lanes, is about two men--slick lawyer Gavin (Ben Affleck) and harried insurance salesman Doyle (Samuel L. Jackson)--who collide on a Manhattan highway while rushing to respective court appointments. Gavin needs to secure judicial approval of his firm's right to manage a dead man's billions; Doyle hopes to win back his separated wife and his kids...