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...together to rid themselves of these two terrors. The film is extremely visually arresting; its creative team dresses the characters in brightly colored clothes and perfectly fills the Brown house with quirky clutter. Both Lansbury and Staunton give gamely over-the-top performances, and Thompson shines as always, even beneath her disfiguring makeup. The initially tasty film, however, dissolves in the end into a sticky mess of saccharine sweetness, involving a Cinderella-esque union between Firth and a pretty servant. This plotline is strangely reminiscent of the Firth storyline from “Love Actually,” when...
...motley crew loitering by Johnston Gate before the show-down sported layers of sweaters beneath custom-made red and blue T-shirts. Among the mostly male crowd, several had handled firearms before. Some were paintball tournament veterans, with battle scars—and personal guns costing as much as $800—dating from their middle school years...
...After all, history has given us poignant dramas like the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, yet also regrettable farces like the Munich Agreements of 1935, pompously presented by British Prime Minister Chamberlain as a symbol of “peace in our time.” However, a fallacy lies beneath this analogy: where ambiguous art is celebrated, countries with vague intentions certainly are not. The Islamic Republic of Iran is an actor that seems not to comprehend this impossibility. Its flirtatious relationship with nuclear proliferation has the dialectic of a Greek tragedy, and it might end as one worthy...
...icily they wield it. She was also surprised how tough it was to keep up the faade of bluff, jocular arrogance that both sexes demand from men at all times. "Every man's armor is borrowed and 10 sizes too big," she writes in Self-Made Man, "and beneath it, he's naked and insecure and hoping...
...Sullivan's essay "The Vatican's New Stereotype": I am sorry about Pope Benedict XVI's rules excluding gay men from the priesthood [Dec. 12]. But they are not the first Catholics to be identified and told that "regardless of how they behave or what they do, they are beneath serving God" as priests. That distinction belongs to women. Lynn Mostafa Salinas, California...