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                    [Title] => Cruise control
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Tom Cruise, the Hollywood hero, may misstep from time to time, but he still plays to his strengths at the box office.

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I’ve been away a few weeks. And as I return to the Philippines just in time for Halloween, I find myself thinking about scary things to write about.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => For Men [SectionUrl] => for-men [URL] => http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/1206/iifj.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 956534 [Title] => Famous fictional mobsters [Summary] =>

As mobster Tony Soprano, James Gandolfini had the kind of role that reached the very heights of popular culture — a character so famous we end up quoting him...

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Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids; in fact, it’s cold as hell.

[DatePublished] => 2012-08-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 730521 [Title] => Moondogs barking in the tropical sunshine [Summary] =>

There aren’t many novels by foreign authors set in the Philippines.

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The one where Sydney is being beaten up while tied to a chair or about to fall off a train or in some other dire FCC-certified life-or-death situation, and right before that one cathartic release of tension that we all know is inevitable, as our darling spy chick is holding on for dear life, Abrams pulls us back 72 hours to explain how said situation has come to occur?

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