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...Though the movie is no more than agreeable, it does provide a swell showcase for New Zealand wundercomic Rhys Darby (Murray, the hapless agent on HBO's Flight of the Conchords) and gives the astrally adorable Zooey Deschanel a rare shot at a lead role in a big Hollywood movie. Casting directors, please take note...
...This decade he did a swell turn, again under a ton of makeup, as a vengeful ex-con in the Robert Rodriguez-Frank Miller Sin City. On his few forays into late-night talk (one visit with David Letterman sticks in my mind), the host would breathe a sigh of relief to find Rourke roguishly charming; the bull hadn't demolished the china. But mostly his rep kept him MIA. When he came up for the role of Randy, he recalled in Venice, Aronofsky told him: "You're a really great actor, and you've just f______ up your career...
...next time an "inspirational" speech appears on your movie screen and the surround-sound strings swell - don't worry. They'll make it. They'll win. They'll prevail. They have to. It's Hollywood...
Mercer analysts attribute the developments mainly to the collapse of the equity market, in which many U.S. pension plans are invested. But pension funds are being hit on the other side of their balance sheet as well, as declining yields on Treasury bonds swell the size of their pension fund liabilities...
...dinner table or bridge game. He had the gift of intelligent gab, and a mind that swiftly synthesized all he'd read and seen into what he knew the listener would find informative and attractive. He demonstrated that when Edward VII resigned after marrying Wallis Simpson (another American swell Cooke had met), and NBC radio hired him to cover the event: 10 days, 400,000 words virtually all ad-libbed...