21.   If you play two guys and you lose, the sportswriters are saying you should have played the other guy.

22.   In his movies he often played a guy fighting the system.

23.   In it, he plays a guy who comes to finalize a divorce with his ex-wife, a research scientist working deep in the jungle.

24.   Instead, what he has learned, he said, is how to play the hard guy.

25.   Jewel expertly plays these guys to get what she really wants -- material goods.

26.   Keanu Reeves plays a guy who realizes everything around him is fake.

27.   Meanwhile, Bush is playing nice guy, shedding the ghost of Bob Jones, and taking advice from people like Condoleezza Rice.

28.   Modano, the guy with the Hollywood smile, playing tough guy?

29.   Much as Michael Douglas does, Affleck excels at playing guys who swing back and forth between nice and not-so-nice.

30.   No one wants to play these guys.