Word: smith
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Usually, stars are paid what they will bring in at the box office. So if you get, let's say, Will Smith, you're guaranteed to get his salary or more the first weekend, just by his name alone. The movie doesn't have to be fantastic. But he certainly draws people in, and that's why we pay him the money...
After Cosby was shot, the three suspects fled to Lowell House—the residence of Brittany J. Smith ’09, who was dating Copney—to hide the gun. Meanwhile, Cosby had stumbled out of Kirkland and collapsed onto Dunster Street. The three then escaped to South Station, where they took a bus back to New York City, Bennett said...
...screenwriters - Nicole Eastman, Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith - had one sharp idea: to explore the polar-opposite rules of guy comedies and gal comedies. Guy comedy revels in the blithe display of unruly behavior; a Rogen or Jason Segel character doesn't do or say crude things for shock's sake but as an expression of his unhousebroken personality. It's not what he does; it's what he is. Gal comedy plays on these same embarrassing words or situations to test the heroine's decorum and destroy her dignity. In both kinds of movies, the activities and attitudes...
...With reporting by Gilbert Da Costa / Lagos and Adam Smith / London...
...Moreover, a look beneath its recent earnings report reveals that Citi is still struggling to extricate itself from the credit crisis. All of Citi's profits and then some in the second quarter were the result of a onetime gain on the sale of 50% of the company's Smith Barney brokerage division to Morgan Stanley. Take that out as well as some other onetime events, and CreditSights' Hendler says the company actually lost 70 cents a share, or about 30% more than it did in the same three-month period a year ago. (See the top 10 bankruptcies...