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...Duplicity, writer-director Tony Gilroy's follow-up to Michael Clayton, Roberts shares star billing with Clive Owen, but it's not a Julia Roberts Movie. The film is a nimble, witty whirligig of a caper, and it's no criticism to say Paul Giamatti, playing an insecure loon of a CEO, and Tom Wilkinson, as his devious rival, snatch the spotlight from the pretty people every chance they get. So does the timeline, which bounces around far more than Roberts' glossy tresses. The role of Claire Stenwick, a former CIA operative now playing the espionage game in the highly...
...Bono, however, that all eyes stay fixed. U2 carries the day, but he carries the show. That has always been the way, ever since the band's first scuffling days in Dublin during the punk whirligig."They were very bad," admits Manager McGuinness. "But it wasn't the songs that were the attraction. It was the energy and commitment to performance that were fantastic even then. Bono would run around looking for people to meet his eyes...
...creature of indefatigable show-biz sizzle. In this expansion of the Saturday-morning show, Spot follows his boy Leonard to Florida, where Spot means to submit to the genetic-engineering experiments of Dr. Ivan Krank (Kelsey Grammer). The script, by Cheers vets Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, has a whirligig wit, and 11 songs crammed into its 67 minutes: that's more melodic content than in most Broadway musicals...
It’s a vicious cycle. As students slog through the battery of applications and rejections, the desire to “get in” and the concomitant feeling that the whirligig of applications and rejections really does signify something important only grows. That leads to the superior attitudes of the students with the power of rejection over other kids...
Synthetic extensions have always been cheaper, but, coarse in texture and limited in style and color, they were less attractive. The new synthetics, however, are much improved and offer a whirligig of choice. Amekor, which supplies the line of extensions marketed by the model Beverly Johnson, saw its sales jump from $25 million five years ago to $100 million last year, in large part because of a synthetic line that offers 40 styles and 20 colors...