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...good. The film has already brought in an impressive €400,000 in Ireland alone (it's released in the U.K. on Aug. 1 and across Europe starting September) and kicked Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle out of the No. 1 spot. Veronica Guerin may blur the lines between fairy tale and fact, but as an ode to bravery and spirit, it's proving stronger than your average superhero...
...cloudless spring morning, among boarded-up row houses in North Philadelphia, the asphalt school yard at Wright Elementary is a blur of arriving children, many in uniforms getting a bit too tight and too short as the year draws to a close. Glasses propped on top of her head, hand on a child's shoulder, Wright's motherly principal, Anita Duke, rolls a rickety cart with a microphone and speaker into the yard for the morning announcements and starts another day. It's Duke's 29th year working in Philadelphia's public schools, her sixth at Wright...
...next four hours in his room are a blur to her, Jane says, with many gaps in her memory when she thinks she blacked out from drinking...
...BLUR OF ALCOHOL
...weather and environment it was made in." But Think Tank is more than a grown-up-rocker-discovers-Afropop indulgence. The production involvement of Norman Cook (Fat Boy Slim) and remix-master William Orbit was an inspired stroke, but their hand is light, quelling fears that this would be Blur's dance album. The opening track, Ambulance - which would sit easily on David Bowie's Low - begins with a declaration: "I ain't got nothing to be scared of." And Albarn does seem musically fearless. Think Tank is often experimental but never jarring, mixing synth and acoustic picking...