Word: devil
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Penelope Cruz, Volver Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal Helen Mirren, The Queen Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada Kate Winslet, Little Children...
...benefits and value judgments each time. Whenever it can, it relies on a type of "quick key" that takes advantage of experiences and stored information. That's where things like brands, familiarity and trust come in--they're a shortcut for knowing what to expect. "You run from the devil you know," says Montague. "And you run to the brand that you know, because to sit there and deliberate chews up time, and that makes you less efficient than the next...
...Americans were struck dumb. America Ferrera, winner for Ugly Betty, gave the most poised speech by a 22-year-old, thanking a couple dozen cohorts without sounding as though she was reading from a phone book. Meryl Streep, winning in the Supporting Actress category for The Devil Wears Prada, got off a nice opening quip: "I think I've worked with everybody in the room." And if Streep didn't take the trouble to memorize her speech, she did at least read a decent one. "Oh, shut up," she seemingly ad-libbed when a few people groaned...
...speech accepting an award for the very commercial The Devil Wears Prada, Meryl Streep urged audiences to ask their local theater owners for more independent films, like Volver. After accepting a Globe for his NBC show 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin praised an indie he had no part of, Half Nelson, backstage. The only person to stand up for big-budget multiplex-seat-filling films was Ben Stiller, who plugged his blockbuster Christmas movie Night at the Museum. Thank God someone remembered what this night is all about...
...Most of the attacks on MMOGs sounded familiar to me-in the '80s when I played Dungeons & Dragons, it was taken as practically gospel that the game was the devil's work. But while I knew, even as a kid, that those claims were stupid, I wasn't so sure about WoW. I believed that there was something wrong about how easy excitement came...