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...Born in Worcester, Mass., Bishop was also a resident of Key West, New York, Boston, and Brazil, where she lived for 16 years with her partner Lota de Macedo Soares. Bishop’s life was one plagued with tragedy: her father died before her birth, a boyfriend committed suicide leaving her with a postcard, “Go to hell, Elizabeth,” and de Macedo Soares died by overdose. A close friend of confessional poet Robert Lowell, Bishop abstained from his personal, intimate style, preferring a more guarded approach to writing despite her various hardships...
...film really centers on Aniston’s character, Olivia, and her attempt to get her life back in order. Aniston, as a pothead who is hung up on her last boyfriend, lacks motivation, and steals wrinkle-reducing cream, is simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and completely relatable. This side of the former “Friend” is better even than the quirky losers she played in “Office Space” and “The Good Girl...
...From her auctioneer's perch, Hermacinski sees more women raising bidding paddles and crashing the largely male club of wine collectors. "At each new auction, there seems to be a new female face, bidding on her own, for her own account, as opposed to holding her husband's or boyfriend's paddle," says Hermacinski. "At the last auction there was a table of three women bidding on top-quality Burgundy. They were having so much fun. They knew just when to stop and just when to push it. I was very impressed...
...spiky air makes her subject to countless gape-mouthed stares.) In the nurturing United Nations dynamic the band aspires to, O is the U.S., and when she moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and pushed to hire producer Sam (Squeak E. Clean) Spiegel, the brother of her then boyfriend, director Spike Jonze, Zinner and Chase reluctantly went along. The trio recalls the writing process--which did not go well--with uncomfortable courtesy, as if they're afraid to say anything that might be misconstrued as an insult and regurgitated later. "There were a lot of crackheads near Sam's recording...
...script strays into strange territory like a befuddled traveler. Scenes such as the aforementioned kidnapping--Loretta's loopy/jealous stapler-salesman boyfriend Dave (Tom Barnett) throws Michael into his car's trunk--are so top-heavy with look-at-me absurdness that they nearly capsize the whole effort. Yet Yates is able to keep the proceedings afloat partly through a consistent aesthetic awash in kitschy tones...