Word: vins
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...VIN DIESEL...
...scared consumers that is tricky. Chicken sales in France were down by 20% at the end of February, says André Lepeule, delegate general of the Federation of Poultry Industries, and some retailers say sales have dipped by twice that. No matter how often politicians publicly eat coq au vin or suprême de volaille, the French are treating chicken as if it glowed in the dark. "I froze two chickens a few weeks before the disease came to France, but once they are done that's it," says Janet Sitbon at a supermarket in Paris' Marais district...
There are only two males in the packed bus—three if you include the driver, four if you include Vin Diesel on the tiny TV screens. For the most part, the girls on the bus are conservatively dressed, hair prim and shoulder-length or tied up in ponytails. The accessories of choice are gossip rags, shopping bags, and Starbucks cups. The girls in the very back giggle over the child actors in the “The Pacifier.” Other riders chat softly or fiddle with their iPods. The scene could be mistaken for a ride...
...Much like Michael Jordan (athlete), one might say, or Vin Diesel (self-explanatory), or Jesse Ventura (athlete-turned-politician), or Dwight Eisenhower (president)? Donato’s only 36, after all—that’s 10 years younger than Summers when he was named president—and an unadorned pate “gives Coach a little extra age. That might bode well with the office he’d be sitting in. They’d see a nice bald guy—maybe get him some glasses...
...hours savoring his just deserts. Into this familiar mold Scott and his screenwriters poured so much intelligence, such vigorous picturizing of military assaults and gladiatorial entertainments that this dormant genre was reborn. The fatal "games" Maximus fights in the Colosseum might be a modern extreme sport or a Vin Diesel melodrama reimagined as art. Superb acting certainly helps. Offscreen, Crowe may seem a lout; onscreen, he radiates the maturity of a strong, scarred man--a star suitable for epics past and epics to come. --By Richard Corliss