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...Spoon sugar over top of bowls evenly, fully covering. Burn with a créme brûlée torch until solid...
...Still, in the green arena, Bush has always been a President you have to grade on a generous curve, and in that respect, tonight's speech earns him a solid B. Perhaps his apparent green conversion is just a calculated ploy to win some much-needed good press. But it's also true that the last two years of a badly cratering Presidency can be a time of unexpected clarity; the less you have to lose, the less you have to fear. And the first step in tackling anything as scary as global warming is admitting you have a problem...
...Similarly, the list includes only one solid, medium-budget hit: The Departed, which has taken in more than a quarter-billion dollars worldwide. Among the more specialized fare, Babel, with its complicated structure and polylingual perversity, has totaled only about $24 million in North America but nearly $40 million abroad. Little Miss Sunshine, made for just $8 million, has grossed nearly $60 million at home and $30 million abroad; that's the kind of arithmetic that gets cheers from the Academy (and from Hollywood). The Queen couldn't have cost much more than Sunshine, and it has earned $72 million...
...Gosling, he rode the indie wave onto Santa Monica beach with his solid if mannered portrayal of a drug-addled teacher. O'Toole, 74, was nominated for his charmingly cadaverous work in Venus and for outliving decades-long expectations of his demise. Smith ought to get a prize for making hits out of movies in unfashionable genres: romantic comedy, as in Hitch, and this male weepie. He's the black Hanks; and since Tom soiled himself last year by doing The Da Vinci Code, Will gets the good...
...Does Hollywood have the same warm feelings for Murphy? If the members can stand him, they'll probably give him a statuette, as much for services rendered as for this solid comeback performance...