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That heart comes bursting out of Funny People, Apatow's intermittently engaging, 2 hr. 26 min. essay in schizo-cinemaphrenia. A transparent attempt to make a grown-up film, it's got two worldviews - one comically misanthropic, the other sloppily sentimental - that have little in common with each other. It's as if, halfway through, you went out for popcorn and mistakenly returned to an auditorium showing a different picture. And that second movie ends immolating itself. (Joel Stein on Judd Apatow: Judd, Seriously...
...that complaining about Microsoft products is an armchair sport for bloggers. Bing, described by Microsoft as a "Decision Engine," targets four major categories of search: shopping, local, travel and health. Bing's home page is sumptuously colorful, displaying a different, richly detailed photograph every day. It's a deliberate attempt to distinguish Bing from Google's minimalist look...
...Court and pleaded not guilty to all five of the charges he faced in connection with Cosby's death. Copney, who turned himself in to police on May 21 and has since been held without bail, has been charged with all four of Aquino's crimes, as well as attempt to commit a crime. Welford said he could not comment at this time as to why Copney faces the additional charge...
...needs to be a public option" in the health-care-reform bill, to help control insurance costs. But White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has declined this week to say whether Obama is still fighting for a public health plan over the alternate proposal for a "co-op," which would attempt to insert competition into the marketplace by promoting the formation of nonprofit health entities made up of individuals or small businesses. "We're influencing the process forward," he said on Tuesday when asked if the White House opposed the co-op alternative. "We're hopeful that they'll make progress...
...interview in the Oval Office, Obama did not attempt to hide his frustration. "This has been the most difficult test for me so far in public life, trying to describe in clear, simple terms how important it is that we reform this system. The case is so clear to me. And when I sit with our policy advisers," he told me, pointing across the room to the spot where Kocher had given his presentation hours before, "when you start hearing the litany of facts, what you say to yourself is, This shouldn't be such a hard case to make...