Word: evening
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...even these irreverent squiggles, however, can diminish the real testament of the posters: the enduring stardom; the genre jumping; the directing, producing and acting credits that have built his brilliant career during his two decades in the movie business. Yet even by his mammoth standards for success, this has been Gibson's year of living large. While last summer's Revolutionary War epic "The Patriot" wasn't the blockbuster Sony hoped for, it grossed more than $100 million in the U.S., thanks to Gibson's drawing power. He also provided his marquee value and inimitably cocky voice to the role...
...Instead, he's looking for directing projects. He had been planning to direct "Hamlet" onstage with Robert Downey Jr. in Los Angeles before Downey was arrested on drug-related charges on Nov. 25. "He would knock your socks off," says Gibson, sounding sad and frustrated. "I don't think even he knows it. I hope he gets it together...
...doll wearing a kilt and waving a sword. "I think time makes one more aware of the light and shade in human behavior," he says. "Most people get better with time. The sad part is, you get old and ugly as you get better." Then he laughs, knowing that even with the aging, there's not much for him to be sad about...
...will need the congressional backing of many in the PRI and the smaller opposition Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) for his campaign to restructure the security system to make it less corrupt and more responsive. He'll need them even more in his campaign to privatize more of the country's energy sector, which is a tall order in a nation whose electorate thinks of Mexico's oil as a national resource and has blocked every previous effort toward privatization. But in Fox's scheme, privatization remains the key to attracting the foreign investment necessary to achieve his economic growth targets...
...courts. He'd created an umbrella immunity from prosecution for himself as one of his preconditions for handing over power to civilians, and it was widely assumed that the military that had ruled Chile at gunpoint for 17 years would not tolerate civilians putting their erstwhile leader on trial. Even when Pinochet was arrested in Britain in 1998 following an extradition request by a Spanish judge, the assumption was that the general would have to be tried in Europe because the Chilean authorities were either politically or legally unable to press charges. But the 18 months the strongman spent under...