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...time. Il Pellicano is luxury that doesn't take itself too seriously. "You set certain guidelines for the staff, but you also give them the space to interpret their role in a way they're comfortable with," explains Roberto Sciò, who helps run Il Pellicano. The easygoing tone is set by Sciò's father and namesake, who bought the place on a whim in 1979. Roberto Sr. had been a regular customer since the early days of the hotel, established in 1965 by English pilot Michael Graham who named it after the equally dramatic Pelican Point in California...
...million at the domestic box office since Hannah and Her Sisters. Allen must have thought it was worth a replay, with Scarlett Johansson again serving as the love interest. Hence Scoop, which twists Match Point's rogue's-progress plot into a kind of detective story and its tone from scathing social drama into what must officially be labeled comedy...
Executive producer Marc Platt and writer Cyrus Nowrasteh say they wanted to match the just-the-facts tone of the report. ("The report didn't use any adjectives" is a mantra both men repeat. It's exaggerated but true to the commission's spirit.) Platt hired director David L. Cunningham, a documentary veteran, to give the movie a vérité look, without emotional tricks like zooming in on fraught moments. That's not to say all the actors are dispassionate. Lauria recalls his having volunteered at ground zero after 9/11: "You realize how good people are. A good leader would...
...Yusuf's first two albums sold more than a million and a half copies, topping the charts across the Arab world and Turkey. His latest hit song, "Hasbi Rabbi" (My Lord is Sufficient), is the top-selling ring tone in the region, heard whenever cell phones go off in cabs and cafes from Cairo to Damascus. But the real sensation is Yusuf's slickly produced, MTV-style music videos, which consistently register as the top most-requested on Middle Eastern music TV channels. The videos depict the singer as a model Muslim citizen who visits the mosque, tends...
Aaron Friedberg, a Princeton professor and former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, attacked the pair harshly, using much the same tone of language as the early critics...