Word: stonings
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Starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg as Oscar-and-Felix zombie busters who hook up with con artist Emma Stone and her kid sister Abigail Breslin, the movie was sold as a splatter movie with laughs, which certainly brought in the intended demographic of lonely young males. But since it is also a buddy movie with a healthy slice of teen romance, the zom-com may eventually attract a more disparate crowd. That should be helped by an enthusiastic A- rating from the CinemaScore poll of exiting moviegoers and by a sheaf of favorable reviews. One dissenter in the critical...
Wichita (Emma Stone, she of the sultry voice and fetching overbite who was Jonah Hill's love object in Superbad) and Little Rock (Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin) are also serial grifters. They relieve a gas-station attendant (Chuck & Buck's Mike White) of his money, and Columbus and Tallahassee of their car and weapons. Little Rock is mature and calculating beyond her years, or, as she explains while frisking Tallahassee, "Twelve is the new 20 - gun, please." Wichita, who's about Columbus' age, has had all the world experience he's missed. For Columbus, whose idea of emotional...
...After roughing it out all day, you'll have earned a Maldivian curry dinner on the beach. Or you could check into the spa for a hot-stone-inspired cowrie-shell massage that is preceded by a foot treatment consisting of a grated-coconut scrub and a warm-coconut-milk bath. Then retire into one of the 142 luxurious villas. Pool villa No. 1, incidentally the cheapest category of accommodation, is perfectly sandwiched between the ocean and lagoon, and affords complete privacy. Rates from $860 a night...
...that Rafsanjani had ever made such a speech. I said that I'd been there, using an official Iranian translator, and that the speech had made headlines worldwide. "None of the Iranians here around the table recall such a statement," he said - and the assembled Marx brothers turned to stone. Well, I asked, what about the argument itself, that Iran needed a nuclear weapon to deter Israel? "We believe that the Zionist regime is too little to be able to pose a threat to Iran," he said. "We feel nuclear weapons have no application whatsoever in this time...
...panel of scholars of American history and literature sat in front of a stone fireplace and under the painted gaze of their deceased predecessors to debate how best to represent the American literary tradition in a single volume at an event on Friday in the Barker Center’s Thompson Room...