Word: interrupted
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...friends and fellow cardsharks, like the cliché “hot-girl-in-a-geeky-school” Jill Taylor (Kate Bosworth), are simple caricatures. The unconvincing romance that develops between Ben and Jill is an afterthought seemingly thrown in to attract female ticket buyers. Their scenes together interrupt the action on the casino floor and slacken the movie’s otherwise fast pace.Spacey is the only actor whose scenes are a welcome interruption from the gambling. He has perfected the art of playing cunning villains you love to hate, like John Doe in “Se7en...
...Falewicz finally says, enunciating Gondry's message. "We can change it any way we like." In strict movie terms, that sounds like Hollywood giving itself a license to maraud its old films: to show them chopped down to fit a TV time slot and a standard TV frame; to interrupt them every few mins. with commercials; to colorize them; to issue dubious re-cuts that, say, put decades-later digital effects in Star Wars and leave fans of the originals scrounging for copies the only place they're available...
...Albright Effect Thank you for Publishing Madeleine Albright's brilliant insights [Jan. 21]. I've been a lawyer in private practice for 25 years. Never before have I heard it plainly said that women who want respect from male colleagues should interrupt them. The next time I interrupt a pontificating male opponent, I will not feel so guilty. Albright is a genius, and TIME deserves credit for giving her the opportunity to share what she knows. Judith Neustadter Naone, MAUI, HAWAII...
Women have to be active listeners and interrupters?but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about. I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women...
...story can resume,” writes Robbie Turner, a British soldier fighting in World War II, to Cecilia Tallis, his beloved. He refers to their love story, which both the war and Cecilia’s sister, Briony, interrupt. Director Joe Wright adopts a similar philosophy by choosing Ian McEwan’s bestselling novel “Atonement” for film adaptation: The story can resume—even if the change in medium makes it lose some of its power. The film stays close to the novel that inspired it, as in Wright?...