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...finite plot description. Hal Incandenza is a gifted, troubled student at a high-level Boston-area tennis academy founded by his late father. Down the road is a drug-rehab center inhabited by an assortment of seedy and desperate characters, notably one Don Gately, a cheerful Demerol addict "with a massive and almost perfectly square head he used to amuse his friends when drunk by letting them open and close elevator doors on." Then there's a film clip so entertaining you die if you watch it, and a cell of wheelchair-bound Québécois terrorists ... all right, maybe...
...Dream (2000), both quirky art-house hits, had been on the somber side, to put it mildly. To put it accurately, they were visual monologues that took place inside the deranged minds of their protagonists - respectively, a math whiz obsessed by the number 216 and a heroin addict with a possessive (and understandably perplexed) mom. Instantly, anybody could see that Aronofsky was one of the few American filmmakers who saw the cinema past as a jumping-off point, not a toy store to plunder. His films were full of promise; and more, they delivered on their promises...
...suddenly you’re standing in front of Out of Town News slack-jawed and drooling with no recollection of how you got there, screaming at people about blueberries and buttery flaky crust. Wait, that’s never happened to you? Fine, call me an addict. But I’ve found my perfect fix down a side-street on the way to Central Square. Petsi Pies has been up and running in Somerville since 2003, and opened on Valentine’s Day in what used to be an Italian grocery store called Cremaldi?...
...throws you back to the past, to a time when you thought Princess Peach was cute, and the fish in Fantasia were really sexy. But just as everything changes when Charlie enters the Chocolate Factory, there is a sinister and aggressive undercurrent in the video. Fergie, a recovered meth addict, says she turned to drugs in part because of the pressures of being a child actress. Is this trippy video a subtle jibe at the exploitation of the young stars of Nickelodeon and Disney channel shows? Probably not: Fergie’s much too interested in showing off her caramel...
...endorsed Democratic Senate hopeful Claire McCaskill and criticized her opponent, Senator Jim Talent, for opposing "expanding stem-cell research." Last week radio host Rush Limbaugh accused Fox of either acting or going off his meds to exaggerate the ravages of the disease. (If you were an admitted prescription- pill addict, you might hesitate to lecture a beloved, seriously ill star about his medication. But that's why you do not host the most popular radio show in America.) Other Fox critics enlisted the Son of God: James Caviezel (Jesus from The Passion of the Christ). He and Patricia Heaton (Everybody...