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Readers will find much that is stylistically familiar in Miss Manners' Basic Training: Communication (Crown; 179 pages; $15)--referring to herself in the third person, often amusing in a column but overly arch at book length, and using the locution Gentle Reader. The text is largely a response to letters Martin has allegedly received. It starts off jauntily enough with what Miss Manners likes about life on the Internet: "Cyberspace is like space on the open seas, free of some constraints that should be observed on land." Watch out, though. Already gentility is rearing its well-coiffed head...
...road to stardom segues into a struggle to integrate the show when she makes friends with some of her talented black classmates. The musical concludes with the integration of “The Corny Collins Show” and Tracy’s victorious popularity-contest win over arrogant arch-nemesis Amber Von Tussle. While the musical stays afloat with comedic one-liners and sky-scraping coiffures, it’s weighed down by attempting to touch on the more serious subject of southern segregation. While Tracy’s interactions with black classmate Seaweed J. Stubs are filled with...
...office in downtown L.A., he glimpsed a worker 110 ft. above the ground, doing construction on the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The sight inspired Garcetti--a longtime amateur photographer--to rush home and grab his cameras. "When I first saw that ironworker crawling up on that high arch beam, a rainbow shined down and showed me a use for my talents," he says, sounding more like a dreamy artist than a hardened attorney making opening arguments. "An opportunity fell from...
...most recent movie choices should keep her from that fate. They're all passion projects not calculated to draw a crowd: Sylvia, a biopic about Sylvia Plath; Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, an arch, retrofuturistic movie in which all the acting was done on an empty soundstage, then all the scenery added by computer; and her new film, Proof, about a woman whose life is almost the direct opposite of Paltrow's. She plays Catherine, whose years of caring for her mentally ill, math-genius father (Anthony Hopkins) have left her bitter, maybe nutso. After her father dies...
...with the self-esteem of an earthworm. So every few years, I'd bemoan the state of the music, rip my Public Enemy posters from the wall, unspool all my mix tapes and swear, "Never again!" That was mostly posturing--all it took was something arch and underground, say, Operation Lockdown by Heltah Skeltah, to get me swooning...