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...what Governor Spitzer did was wrong, to his family, to his state, to his supporters across the country, to himself. This much is serious and clear,” Lessig said. “Likewise, no one doubts that until the moment he was charged, Governor Spitzer inspired the best in our profession...
...fact, the most plausible explanation for this excrescence of an album is that Underwood and her handlers have decided that the best way to crossover from country to pop is to make an album in the tradition of the television show that launched her career. As any follower of “Idol” will know, its judges and producers have always maintained a healthy distaste for melody or, indeed, music in general, preferring to applaud and highlight performances of vocal excess, culminating most often in “glory notes.” It is an aesthetic comprehensively...
...Best known for playing affable Jim Halpert on NBC’s “The Office,” Krasinski tackled one of his favorite works for his directorial debut. In adapting “Interviews” for the screen, he returns to his college roots as an English major and playwright at Brown University. Wallace’s unnamed interviewer is here given a distinct collegiate identity as Sara Quinn (an icy Julianne Nicholson), who hopes to investigate “the social effects of the post-feminist era” by conducting and recording interviews with...
...film functions best as a set of such fragmented moments; Krasinski’s original plotline involving Sara remains the movie’s most bland and least convincing device. Scenes that show Sara in class, at professors’ cocktail parties, or in cafés with her friends, have a TV-show quality to them; they remain vignettes without developing her character and only tenuously tie the interviews together into a coherent narrative...