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While strutting pregnant and proud on the red carpet is now chic--a la brand-new mommy Debra Messing--TV stars have it tougher on the set. Here's how shows handle it when she's showing...
...critical when discussing dreams, or love, or his films, turns superconfident when talking about his video work, compiled on a richly varied dvd that was released last fall. But the scope and narrative demands of a full-length motion picture meant his first big-screen venture would inevitably be tougher - it was critically panned, even by him. "I had issues with it," Gondry says of Human Nature, about a man raised as an ape. He declines to elaborate, apart from saying the Kaufman-written film, starring Patricia Arquette and Tim Robbins, "was a little hard to get into." Few people...
...that image hides a tougher, Hollywood-mogul side--especially in recent years, since Miyamoto, 51, has become more manager than creator. Eiji Aonuma, director of Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, tells of Miyamoto's habit of coming in at the end of a game's gestation to "upend the tea table"--a phrase that harks back to what Japanese fathers used to do when they didn't like what was for dinner. The boy who never grew up is not afraid to make a mess if he doesn't get what he wants...
...George W. Bush has to prove he?s doing something about the economy too, but the President faces a tougher challenge. He can?t propose bold action either, because Republicans believe the less government gets involved in the economy the better. Bush has already passed his biggest economic proposal - his tax cuts. All he wants to do now is make those tax cuts permanent and try to decrease the cost of doing business by limiting lawsuits and getting rid of ?unnecessary? regulations and reporting requirements. None of this is as exciting as invading another country, but Bush spends...
...They changed pitchers, and we didn’t do a very good job of sitting back and doing what we had been doing [to succeed],” Mann said. “It was slower pitching, and it got tougher for us to be patient and wait—we got anxious, and we were getting ourselves out while they were stringing together these dinky hits for one big inning...