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...have children and need to plan for attention deficits during lengthy pitching changes. Order a starter of popcorn in the fourth, followed by a hot dog main course in the fifth. For a sixth-inning dessert, go for the blue-and-pink cotton candy. By the seventh stretch, the cotton candy will have turned your mouth purple. Go for a second hot dog in the eighth, and nurse your bellyache in the ninth...
...star as the silky Nazi sadist in Schindler's List and the enigmatic lover in The English Patient. But those hits, both of which won Oscars for Best Picture, are, respectively, 12 and nine years old. Since then, he has used his wattage to choose parts that suit or stretch his range. He is less worried about his payday or the films' potential grosses, although he can wince over those that failed. Of The Avengers, a high-profile flop, he rues "some spark not there" with co-star Uma Thurman and curses an inapt chapeau: "I looked crap in that...
...spend my days trapped, sometimes for eight or 14 hours at a stretch. My captors twist. They squeeze. My skin blisters under pitiless, chafing leather straps. I’m talking, of course, about high heels and the utter agony of dealing with them all day as I hop, skip, trip, and fall my way though a summer internship at a large financial institution smack in the middle of Corporate America. Middle of Corporate America though it may be, it’s still five blocks away from my subway station...
...specific ages? That's important. Give a wide age range. Usually I would go a 10-year stretch, younger and older, so that you don't eliminate people from...
...four of the six movies he had roles in last year, JUDE LAW played the kind of man who cheats. Turns out they weren't much of a stretch. But what made his affair--news of which spread through the tabloids like a heat rash--different from a regular star-sleeps-with-nanny scandal was the level of detail. First the nanny, DAISY WRIGHT (left, with Law and his son RUDY), who reportedly kept a diary, shared with Britain's Sunday Mirror such choice bulletins as "Jude was a masterful lover who made my whole body tingle" and that...