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...major California poker tournament last week. His victory in the $10,000 buy-in event earned the avid gambler a seat in the World Poker Tour Championship, to be held next April in Las Vegas. Affleck outlasted a former world champ and fellow action hero Tobey Maguire at the tourney in Commerce, Calif., to "become a respected member of the poker elite," a casino rep said. Now if only the star of such clinkers as Paycheck and Gigli made smarter bets on his films...
What a dork! Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is behind in his rent, behind in his classwork, doing too many part-time jobs badly--and that says nothing about his intimacy problem. It's dangerous for his beloved Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) to know he's Spider-Man, so he has to keep his true, agonized self distant from her yearning heart. Every once in a while, this affects his superheroic night job: he loses the ability to spin the sticky webs that permit him boinging passage through the New York City skies, and--splat! ouch!--he tumbles...
...sometimes it’s because of bad directing and sometimes it’s because the actor and director are trying to emphasize a theme or heighten the work’s atmosphere. But not many actors can build a compelling character out of such stuff; for every Tobey Maguire that succeeds, there are fifty Keanu Reeveses that fail...
...program progressed chronologically, including an original jazz composition by Tobey entitled “Midlothian Rhapsody” and Furrow’s tender vocal rendition of Seymour Simons and Gerald Marks’ “All of Me.” Furrow, who has played the trumpet at previous recitals, made his debut on the piano with the Mario Brothers theme song taught to him by his roommates...
...grand finale, the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey was the group’s response to a request from the week before. “Here’s the best we can do with a few people and a keyboard,” said Tobey. Their answer to the challenge included Furrow’s acting as the timpani, providing the necessary “bom, bom, bom, bom”s with his vocal chords. Crowd favorites at past recitals have included the theme from Love Story and Gloria Gaynor?...