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10/17/03—Upon leaving Daedalus at last call, an anonymous couple said hello as they were making their way down Mt. Auburn. I stopped and engaged them in rambling banter, which reached various emotional piques over the course of the 15 minute exchange, culminating in a proclamation of my undying love for them both and a proposal of group marriage. Though I believe the numerous bear hugs I gave them both together and individually captured the same friendly feeling conveyed by a good hello, technically I did not reciprocate their greeting in kind...
...good guy and CaroleAnne an unsympathetic harpy--and anyway, sexual harassment doesn't have the crackle that it had back in the days of, say, Michael Crichton's Disclosure. The pleasure of Bing's novel lies in his masterful, merciless evocation of the executive milieu--the lunches, the banter, the petty slights, the Scotch-soaked male bonding. "Keep in mind, please, that large emotions and reactions are alien to a true corporate workplace environment," Bing urges us. "A great business milieu is like creme brulee, with the tasty custard down below and a fine glazed topping up above, sweet...
...boiled to the point of inedibility? None of Your Business is actually a magnificently dry social comedy, cunningly smuggled inside a meticulously researched, perfectly paced police procedural, like a virus packaged in a witty e-mail. As Sprague and Ballestrino worry away at a thin trail of clues, they banter and snipe at each other, stress about their expanding waistlines and diminishing love lives and generally behave like real human beings. It's an episode of Law & Order scripted by Candace Bushnell. And if that's not enough, for maximum degree of difficulty, Block supplies us with that rarest...
...between the car chases and gunplay, Chan lays in plenty of the good-natured banter and macho high jinks that are standard issue in buddy-cop pictures from Hong Kong to Hollywood. At one point, Ekin Cheng banishes a junior officer to the inside of a huge fish tank, where the underling must count the number and variety of each fish?while wearing only underwear...
Once there was lots more going on. In the '30s and '40s, when everyone (not just dateless teen boys) went to films, the sexes were equal onscreen. Men and women used to swap banter, fall in love, solve dilemmas together, share top billing. And women could anchor hits, big ones. Gone With the Wind, depicting a Southern belle's struggles and whims, was Hollywood's top grosser for 26 years--until another women's film, The Sound of Music, matched it. Even the current "all time" champ, Titanic, is at heart a shipboard love story. Yet Hollywood is reluctant...