Word: perfection
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...clown's leap to the stage to pick up his Best Actor Oscar, but in retrospect, the issue isn't that Benigni beat out Nick Nolte, Edward Norton, Ian McKellen and Tom Hanks for the award; it's that Jeff Bridges wasn't even nominated. His deft, hilarious, thrillingly perfect performance as Jeffrey Lebowski, a.k.a. the Dude, in the Coen brothers' genius film The Big Lebowski should have been showered with prizes. Instead, the only official honor Bridges got for the 1998 film was a nomination from the Satellite Awards, whatever those...
...when post offices processed a whopping 800 million pieces of mail, a 40% spike over the typical load. A FedEx spokesman said the 14th was also that carrier's busiest day; the delivery service processed and sent out 13 million packages. Why Dec. 14? FedEx calls the date a "perfect storm" - packages were backed up from the weekend, and shoppers were rushing to beat the end of many retailers' free-shipping offers. The carrier says Dec. 14 has the potential to be the busiest day in its 36-year history. (See how Americans are spending...
...course, nobody's perfect. And academic stardom aside, the man's Class Day speeches could use some work...
When we got to the conference room at the Crowne Plaza in Edison, N.J. - perhaps the perfect adult analogue to being in high school - the people who worked for Reunions Unlimited Inc. asked me for $244 in cash. This seemed like a lot for a bad buffet, Coors Light and finding out what people I knew as teenagers look like, how many kids they have and what they do for a living. When Reunions Unlimited Inc. came up with its pricing plan, it was clearly unaware of Facebook. Or the career paths of people who went to public school...
Change did not come easily for Stratta. "That carton was the perfect portion of Häagen-Dazs," he says. "Serves eight? No, it serves one guy who really likes ice cream." Stratta decided to get off sugar, fatty meats and carbs after his suit wouldn't fit for an awards reception, sending him into a big-and-tall shop. "I was a size-20 neck. I was mortified. I was like Alex the Neck," he says. In 18 months, he went from 270 lb. to 190 lb., which is below his high school weight. His new rules include starting...