Then there's James McAvoy, 31, star of Atonement and Wanted, in which he appeared opposite Angelina Jolie.
"Frank knew there was hardly a commission in L.A. he might want in which Eli wouldn't have some role," a close friend of Gehry's told me.
Last week, Macy Halford, my colleague over at The Book Bench, wondered "What Kindle Wants," in which she expressed her preference for physical books over the electronic kind.
NOLA -- On the heels of "What a Girl Wants," in which Amanda Bynes crosses the ocean to find her real father, Colin Firth, comes a similar romantic comedy.
I'm not resisting, I'm doing what I want," in which he can heard saying "I'm not resisting, sir. I'm not resisting," as he is held down.
Mr. Verbinski especially uses the scene in which Elizabeth discovers exactly what her captors want, in which she's thrown and shoved as if she were being slammed around on a roller coaster, to remind us of this.
But the sly sense of humor always returns: near the end, there's an interlude called, "What You Want," in which a nagging lover's phone call provokes a brief, aching ballad of resentment.
She also said that she was prepared to walk away from the negotiations if Britain didn't get what it wanted, in which case the country would crash out of the E.U. with no agreement at all.
While Wozencraft's earlier books — like "Rush," about a female undercover narcotics officer, and "Wanted," in which two wrongfully convicted women break out of prison — had a believable edge, "The Devil's Backbone" is soft to a fault.
And I don't mean the selective normalcy the Bush administration wants, in which everyone goes shopping but the media continue to report only inspiring stories and war news.
