Word: addictions
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...Andy is a drug addict. His wife (Marisa Tomei) is cuckolding him with his own brother (Ethan Hawke). He is in trouble at work - well-founded suspicions of embezzlement - and he is also the masterless mind behind a plan to rob a suburban jewelry store - which just happens to be owned by his very own parents (Albert Finney and Rosemary Harris). Needless to say, this not exactly capering caper goes murderously awry. We quickly understand that nothing good is going to come out of this mess for Andy. He, of course, does not catch the drift toward disaster. Coolly smiling...
...Things We Lost in the Fire is in some ways more novel, but in ways that undermine our interest. It seems that Brian, the murdered husband (David Duchovny), has a childhood friend, Jerry (Benicio Del Toro) that is everything he is not - a drug addict who has fallen to the most degrading level. Brian has stood by him through the years, doing what he can to keep him alive. His widow, Audrey (Halle Berry), invites Jerry to the funeral and then, unaccountably, invites him into her and her children's lives. She gives him a spare room and does...
...regard for his feelings and who shamelessly uses his affections for her own ends. After one of her many abrupt departures from his life, Ricardo finds a toothbrush she has left behind in his apartment and experiences a visceral agony comparable to the withdrawal of an addict: “I was in a sweat all night, my mind blank, as I clutched the Guerlain toothbrush that I kept like a charm in my night table, chewing on my despair and jealousy. The next day I was a wreck, my body shaken by chills, without energy for anything...
...make even the smartest person feel dumb. According to Zweig, a senior writer at Money magazine, it isn't entirely your fault. The appetite for money is a hardwired instinct that bullies our rational thoughts. Humans crave money so intensely, he writes, that the brain scans of a cocaine addict and someone about to receive cash look an awful lot alike. The good news: with self-awareness and a basic understanding of the brain's mechanics, we can dupe the greatest financial foe of all--ourselves. --By Carolyn Sayre...
...that he managed to be sexy. How can you be playing this weird, overweight guy in galoshes who's socially inept and somehow be a movie star as you're doing it?" It takes an actor who excels at contradiction--a Jewish anti-Semite, a do-gooder drug addict--to pull off the hunky-freak trick. It also helps if he is, in real life, a bit of an oddball...