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Typically in bloom for two weeks of the year, cherry blossoms have captivated generations struggling to come to terms with the frailty of human life. But despite their transient existence, these harbingers of mortality are a far cry from bleak or empty representations of death. Instead, the obvious beauty of these flowers, no matter how short-lived or delicate, is a testament to those unbreakable bonds worth striving for—love, familial ties, and friendships. German director Doris Dörrie’s “Cherry Blossoms” is a similar reminder to appreciate life?...
...came when she was still in her teens, in 1995's charming Sense and Sensibility. But beginning with her portrayal of Clementine, the psychedelic-haired femme semi-fatale who radiates crazy in 2004's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a darker, richer phase of her career began to bloom. With the 2006 drama Little Children, in which she plays a suburban mom whose fear that she is becoming a cliché propels her into an affair, and her two latest movies, her appetite for a certain kind of role - "angst-ridden women," she says, owning up to it immediately...
...know the drill." - greeting on Bloom's office phone and cellphone, according to the Wall Street Journal...
...didn't come to work in thousand-dollar suits. He wore blue jeans and stayed up late and came to the crummy dives with us to eat." - Duane Woerth, former president of the Air Line Pilots Association, on Bloom's lack of pretense, Reuters...
...management of the Big Three are probably not going to like what Ron Bloom has to say; the UAW is not going to like what Ron Bloom has to say; and certainly the stockholders and creditors will not like what he has to say." - Michael Psaros, a co-founder of KPS Capital Partners, a private equity group, on Bloom's tough negotiating skills, Wall Street Journal...