Word: earned
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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After all, who am I to complain? So what if my summer won't earn me a sidebar in the Internship Bible? If I wanted to impress random strangers and resume readers I would have stayed in New York. As it is, I have two months of low stress life ahead of me. Hey, if my job gets too boring, they ain't paying me; I can quit...
Chicken Run, a comedy-adventure, with feathers, is exactly the picker-upper this macho-movie summer needs. It's a parable of plucky sisterhood: hens who endure life's drab defeats while hoping for a break. The film is funny and touching and beautifully understated; its characters earn big laughs with the subtlest wrinkle of a brow, sobs with a stifled sigh. In a season of nine-figure budgets, the movie was made for chicken feed ($42 million). It also boasts an accent that is defiantly English--Yorkshire, even--with a dash of Yank bravado from visiting star Mel Gibson...
...August to prepare for a gold-medal defense in Sydney. That could prove more grueling than anything the men's Dream Team faces. The women's game is far more competitive at the top, and powerhouse women's teams like Russia and Cuba will make any American outfit earn its medal...
...raucous game show do research on potential contestants, drawn from the audience, recruiting family and friends to help pose personalized, howlingly degrading challenges. The champs win fabulous vacations but must leave immediately, hence the title. Sometimes inspired, always juvenile, Toothbrush makes you feel better about whatever you did to earn your last vacation...
...Television Writers' Guild of America: "You people over at CBS make us sick. How the heck are we supposed to earn a living in this town when all you care about is pushing these stupid 'reality' programs? You can't just let people wander all over some island without scripts! They sound like, well, like real people! And nobody wants to see the equivalent of their next-door neighbors when they turn on the TV! Trust us on this one: This real-life angle is a recipe for disaster - not to mention a major union strike. But don't worry...