Erin Brockovich

..."It's been a good year for one of this country's top sweethearts (with the exception of 'All About Steve, of course). Comparisons to 'Erin Brockovich' may help Bullock's case, but she still seems like a better bet for a nomination at the...

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...be up. You'd be significantly up, actually. That would be a good business to be in." And Columbia Pictures? The studio produced Erin Brockovich as well as the film that kick-started an American independent cinema movement and delivered...

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...lack of cheap sentiment that saves it from being either too maudlin or saccharine-sweet. Bullock, making a comic-dramatic play for "Erin Brockovich" territory, is perfectly suited to play the tart, no-nonsense Leigh Anne, who, when she sees...

In this article: The Blind Side, Sandra Bullock, Michael Oher, Hollywood, and Memphis

...mark, Steven Soderbergh puts a wry, sly spin on the kind of corporate cover-up he explored in more conventional fashion with Erin Brockovich by blowing the whistle on a real-life ADVERTISEMENT whistle-blower. Said snitch is one...

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...and with a heavy cosmetic lacquer, Bullock sashays away from the camera, leaving the males in a tizzy. The last word is always hers. She's part Erin Brockovich, part Julia Sugarbaker. And like Sugarbaker, Leigh Anne is a designing woman. Her...

In this article: Michael Oher, Sandra Bullock, Michael Lewis, NFL, and Crash

...experimentalism. Constantly he has confounded expectation. And so, just as he produced his Oscar-winning anti-corporate melodrama Erin Brockovich at the height of the get-rich-quick dotcot boom, now, when everyone's hungering for a populist...

In this article: The Informant, Steven Soderbergh, Mark Whitacre, Matt Damon, Bourne Trilogy, Oscar, FBI, and Ocean's 11

...performances of her career as Leigh Anne Tuohy, a brassy, BMW-driving, designer-clothes-clad Memphis belle. (Think Erin Brockovich if Erin started out wealthy.) Leigh Anne's got a loving, former jock-turned-millionaire husband (Tim McGraw),...

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...awards, attracted foreign documentary filmmakers and even secured celebrity endorsements from the likes of Bishop Desmond Tutu and Erin Brockovich. Shell, by contrast, has been flat-footed. Its decision in 2005 to resort to the...

In this article: Shell, Ireland, Revenue, Roman Catholic, and Enterprise Oil

...a barrister to appeal, daughter Georgina took the case to the High Court and represented her mum herself. She not only won, but now Bellway has to pay Mrs Blackwell GBP75,000 in compensation. Three cheers for the Erin Brockovich of Essex!

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Customers will get new powers to join forces and take banks to court over rip-off charges. Just as environmental campaigner Erin Brockovich helped thousands of Californians win a multi-million dollar lawsuit in the 90s, rules in this...

In this article: Customer, Wal-Mart, Julia Roberts, Gordon Brown, and US