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...full free day, what would you do with it? -Susan Watkins, Forth Worth, TexasPretty much what I do at work: I cook, I travel, I love watching films, I love writing recipes. It's truly a joy. I love writing in general and I'm a huge film buff so I like to catch up with some movies, and I like to eat and sleep a lot [laughs]. I either do absolutely nothing, or do what I do for a living. Or I might jump out of an airplane. I do enjoy that...
...having a rough reference of what it is because it's written out like chicken scratch." Oh, and then if you're Downey, you probably improvise a couple of versions that are better than what's on the page and perform those too. "He really, really wanted it," says Susan, 34, his wife of 2 and a 1/2 years, a producer he met while making Gothika in 2002 and by all accounts the crucial member of Team New Downey. "Other than Chaplin, it's the role he's gone after the hardest. He knew he could...
...that schmuck who's just, you know, looking down a hallway in a leased McMinimansion in Brentwood going, 'Hey. I wonder what me and so-and-so are going to do tonight.'" The stable family that Downey craved didn't come intuitively. Early on when they were dating, says Susan, "he'd be driving home, and I'd say, 'Drive safely.' He'd be like, 'What do you mean? Do you think I'm not a good driver?' 'No, dude, that's what you say when you care about someone...
...from his nomadic youth needed feeding. "I'm comfortable and rooted in the mundane, like a beekeeper," he says. "I've realigned myself with whatever my quirky-ass passions are. I love history. I love martial arts. Above all, I love my wife and my kid." When he and Susan have a child, Downey says, "I'm probably just as likely to wind up being John to her Yoko. She can go out and do some stuff; I'll stay home with little Missy...
...ruling marked a "genuinely good day for British justice," says Susan Hawley of NGO The Corner House, one of two pressure groups to have brought the case before the High Court. More could follow. In the next few weeks, the court is expected to force the SFO to reevaluate its decision to scrap the probe, amid mounting pressure for it to revive the investigation. Right now, the SFO is "carefully considering the implications of the judgment and the way forward," a spokesman said. Lawyers acting for the pressure groups expect the government to appeal the ruling. Meanwhile, U.S. Department...