Word: splash
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Barrymore made her first movie splash as the wide-eyed little girl who befriended E.T. 16 years ago, which qualifies her as a sort of cool elder sister for the new group of Hollywood teens. With a stream of increasingly grownup movie parts, she's not a bad role model. After a 1996 cameo in Scream and a perky co-starring role in The Wedding Singer, she stars in Ever After, a sweet feminist remake of Cinderella that opens this weekend, and plays a pregnant fast-food clerk in the quirky black comedy Home Fries, coming later this year...
...ANATOLY TKACHYOV, describing a plan to drop the station gradually into descending orbits. If its interlocking modules successfully separate, the station will then tumble piece by piece to earth; Moscow hopes that whatever bits of the 120-ton space station don't burn up in free fall will quietly splash down. It's not coincidental that the talk of pulling Mir from orbit comes just as NASA has wearied of cajoling Moscow to deliver its long-overdue piece of the $20 billion International Space Station. The builders, having received just $22 million of the $300 million pledged, have...
...house staples. If not for this offshore financing, Hartley, 38, might be working as a radio repairman or a garbageman--jobs that keep his heroes occupied when they aren't playing chess with their gnarly demons. That could change with Henry Fool, the intimate epic that made a splash at festivals last year and has now opened in U.S. movie houses. No less quirkish and studied than his earlier films, this one has an expansiveness, a rowdiness and emotional generosity, that flows directly from its ribald antihero...
...Anatoly Tkachyov, describing a plan to drop the station gradually into descending orbits. If its interlocking modules successfully separate, the station will then tumble piece by piece to Earth; Moscow hopes that whatever bits of the 120-ton space station don't burn up in free fall will quietly splash down. It's not coincidental that the talk of pulling Mir from orbit comes just as NASA has wearied of cajoling Moscow to deliver its long-overdue piece of the $20 billion International Space Station. The builders, having received just $22 million of the $300 million pledged, have...
...Indeed, the news gave Britain's two biggest-selling tabloids -- the Sun and the Mirror -- something to splash on the front page, with both claiming a "World Exclusive." With so little to go on, the royal newshounds were reaching: "Camilla was extremely nervous," claimed the Mirror, "but very relieved she'd finally met Prince William.'' The Sun told us the meeting was "amicable," consisted of "small talk" and lasted for "thirty minutes." Still, at least this "world exclusive" has a basis in fact -- and coming in the form of an announcement from the Prince, has a very public ring...