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...dinosaur world ("I thought these guys were extinct," Ellie says, echoing our confusion), the movie does improve once it gets into the lush underground. That's largely because of the introduction of a moderately entertaining character named Buck (Simon Pegg), an eye-patch-wearing weasel who lives for the thrill of a dinosaur hunt. He's wisecracking, swashbuckling and, even with a pelt, harks back to Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow...
...wised up to the notion of doing some sort of life or entertainment show or being predominantly a talk-show host. I got a chance to host the Late Late Show for two nights before they hired Craig Ferguson. I enjoyed it, but nothing can replace the thrill of calling an NFC championship game or a Super Bowl or a World Series. I wouldn't trade what I do for anything. I have it too good...
There's a particular thrill in seeing an amateur attempt your job. Especially when that job is comedy and the amateur is a Fox News personality. So when I heard Glenn Beck was doing a weeklong, six-city Common Sense Comedy Tour, my funniness ranking went up without my having to do anything. Beck, after all, is known for ranting, and sometimes crying, to a massive audience about how our country is approaching the End of Days. This is less the stuff of comedy than the stuff the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives likes to keep tabs...
...back of my head I said to myself, "I want to try that, I want to win the Slam." But it wasn't anything to do with the record books, really. In 1969 [the second year in which Laver won the Slam], what really motivated me was just the thrill of being back at Wimbledon and these other great tournaments...
...jazz.Brown said that she marvels at the “Harvard serendipity” that made the record launch possible.In 2007, University President Drew G. Faust asked Brown to play at her inauguration. She described the feeling of playing in Sanders Theatre as “an incredible thrill.” But Brown insisted that the path that led her to her current life was a winding journey that required a “big decision made in small steps...at every fork in the road.” Still, making music her life’s work...