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...poets are Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam), a 19th century literary light with a famously serene marriage, and Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle), a less renowned word magician. Imagine an affair between Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti and the scandal that would have rocked the 1860s--or the literary furor it might stoke today if the news were finally to come to light. That's the notion that drives two modern scholars, the American Roland (Aaron Eckhart) and the British Maud (Gwyneth Paltrow), deep into a long-submerged cache of love letters and finally into their own furtive embrace...
...Troy and Sept. 11," he says. "These two huge events of a mythic size seem to form a span of history." Iain Banks thinks Dead Air slots into the second category, which examines the state of the world after the attacks. The story, about radio DJ Ken and his affair with a gangster's wife, begins with guests at a party merrily throwing random objects from the roof of a tall building. (Images of falling pervade the book.) Then comes the news from New York. Ken starts filling his radio airtime with political diatribes, on topics ranging from the Bush...
...film, she stars as Justine, a small-town Texas woman with a dead-end job behind the makeup counter of a discount store called the Retail Rodeo. Married to a lug (John C. Reilly) who is lacking in both smarts and sperm count, Justine embarks on a disastrous affair with a troubled young co-worker (Jake Gyllenhaal...
...People used to write songs about T-Birds and Corvettes. Today they write regulations." Bill Ford , Ford CEO, on America's floundering love affair with...
...most fun part of watching The Touch?and there is quite a bit of fun, some of it actually intentional?is figuring out the movie's most unrealistic element. Is it stars' Michelle Yeoh and Ben Chaplin's culture- and, uh, generation-crossing love affair? The film's Disneyfied version of Tibet, where all the monks are smiling and there's nary a P.R.C. soldier to be seen (except for the ones who were reportedly hired to play the monks)? Or is it the movie's revelation that in the new China, no one speaks Chinese...