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...like to see movies about what came after: the Administration's canny mobilizing of American sentiment in favor of an attack on a nation whose involvement in 9/11 was never proved and now thoroughly debunked. Irwin Winkler's Home of the Brave, starring Samuel L. Jackson as one of three veterans returning home from a harrowing tour of Iraq, looks as if it could be a darker update of The Best Years of Our Lives. And perhaps, if the planned adaptation of Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies is actually made (Crash director Paul Haggis has expressed an interest...
...literary leviathan have to take him with a tiny grain of salt. There is a website that poses the challenge of summarizing In Search of Lost Time in as few words as possible - seemingly inspired by the brilliant Monty Python sketch "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition." Some brave attempts from this website include "Society Sucks", "Mmmm...cookies", and "Marcel's not gay." So what have we learned? What does Proust teach us about time, memory, love, feeling? The way that he's referenced in pop culture now would have you think that he knows either nothing or everything. With...
...true that as causes go, Madonna did not choose a difficult one to champion. African orphans--photogenic, sympathetic, innocent--are not a hard sell. (An A-list star brave enough to fight for the rights of, say, the mentally ill has yet to emerge--unless acting crazy counts as advocacy.) But she recognized, as she has so often before, an opportunity to really make an impression. "My first thing was, I'm going to call people who I know have money, and I'm going to call people who I know want to make a difference in the world...
...spine-tingling fun. But was any of it real? A handful of scientists and scholars brave enough to risk their reputation entered the field to find out. In her fascinating new history, Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death (Penguin; 370 pages), Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer prizewinning science reporter, tells the story of their decades-long effort to establish whether supernatural forces were more than sideshow illusions. They never came to firm conclusions, but their struggle to connect the dots makes for a captivating and even poignant tale...
...self-containment. And she makes you think that if this movie had a shred of thoughtfulness about it, if it wanted to make us contemplate courageously, or even just wryly, the endgame that all of must eventually play, it might have been a very useful exercise. But to find brave and authentic good cheer - which can certainly include romance if you get lucky - on the drear side of life requires a wit and wisdom that is beyond the powers of this truly tasteless movie to summon...