al-Arabiya, its Saudi-owned Arabic-language rival, played down the story.
The chance to go up against a rival, played by Billy Bob Thornton, who's working for his opponent.
Pfeiffer plays a retiring courtesan, who is asked by a former rival, played by Kathy Bates, to take her teenage son in hand.
And she has to compete with Cary, a smarmy young rival played with James Spaderish suavity by Matt Czuchry ("Gilmore Girls" ), for the one associate job up for grabs.
When The New York Blade News, a gay newspaper, hit the streets five years ago, its rival played the gay card.
The task has some perils (being punched out by a rival played by Gabriel Macht), and a few perks as well (going to bed with one of the doctor's receptionists, played by Judy Greer).
The title character of the comedy series "Murphy Brown," a newswoman played by Candice Bergen, was once appalled to discover that a rival, played by Linda Ellerbee, had started a rumor the she, Murphy, "had the hots for Irving R. Levine".
These games: Patriots against Jets, division rivals, playing for first place.
I imagine they are deadly rivals, playing extravagant jokes on each other in order to flush the other out of the market.
But the chase continues off the track, too, with his would-be rivals (does he have any true rivals?) playing tricks with time in an attempt to optimize their meager chances against him in Sunday's semifinals and, presumably, final.
