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...Summer School’s offerings—which range from introductory humanities courses on Bob Dylan to Forbess’ 26-hours-per-week chemistry class—attract students, according to Summer School Dean of Students Christopher Queen, for reasons “quite personal and varied...
Plus, Bears is a pretty dark kids' movie, with a script by the guys who wrote the liquored-up Christmas movie, Bad Santa. The new film centers on a drunken, lecherous former pro player (Billy Bob Thornton, taking Walter Matthau's role) who agrees to coach a bunch of talentless Little Leaguers in exchange for cash. "There's a good bit of rebellion and subversiveness in it and all the values I'd want to put out in mainstream culture," Linklater says...
Wedding Crashers, written by Steve Faber and Bob Fisher and savvily directed by David Dobkin, has Summer Hit engraved all over it, like an invitation to the marriage of The Wedding Singer and Old School. It glamorizes the men's predation by making them charmers who have a great time, and give one too: at receptions Jeremy makes balloon animals for the kids, John schmoozes with the seniors. It conjures up a convenient villain in Claire's boyfriend Sach (Bradley Cooper), a shark-faced sociopath who fools everyone in the family but no one in the audience. It offers...
...Olympics provided Blair with another long-odds win. (Blair was so nervous about the result that he took a walk rather than watch the announcement on TV.) And by focusing the G-8 on Africa and coordinating his goals closely with those of campaigners like Bono and Bob Geldof, Blair has burnished the progressive credentials that his blood brotherhood with George W. Bush over Iraq had obscured...
...learned a lesson from Watergate and the failed cover-up. Others, apparently, are still covering up. Mitchell J. Fine El Dorado Hills, California, U.S. A Pressing Need In his essay "Dark Secrets in the Parking Garage" [June 13], Richard Schickel wondered whether we could use more investigative reporters like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in Washington now. There is no question about it. We need others like them to uncover the lies and distortions that are issued each day by the Bush Administration. John Dean, Nixon's lawyer, has branded this Administration "worse than Watergate." Robert F. Martina Shreveport, Louisiana...