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...photograph offers a transcendent enchantment.This soft glow, as if the print were lit from behind, is common to the most persuasive of the photographs. These works carry the exhibition and instill a sense of mild but persistent wonderment.“Merchant’s family and young bride?? (1923) is another captivating photograph. Four members of a Mongol family appear dressed in their finest pose outdoors, the young bride rearmost in a 2-by-2 formation. While the other faces are rendered in a murky orange-brown, hers is painted with snow-white makeup and cherry...
...doesn’t take a Harvard degree to figure out what happens next. Writer and director Nancy Myers (“Father of the Bride??) employs every standard plot twist in the romantic-comedy game to prime us for the climactic life-change each woman is about to experience...
...When the Santa Anas blow all bets are off. Anything can happen.” And yes, there’s a song from the Garden State soundtrack. Although “The Holiday” lacks the sentimental humor of the “Father of the Bride?? movies (not to mention no gay Martin Short) and offers a less timely subject matter than that of “Something’s Gotta Give” (not to mention no nude Diane Keaton) it still manages to win us over...
...protagonist, Steven Hudson, is a powerful N.Y. investment banker. Like Perkins, Steven receives a letter asking him to be the star in a reality television show called “Trophy Bride?? where young, female 20-somethings compete to marry a “zillionaire.” After repeated assertions about the absurdity of the offer, Steven ends up agreeing to do the show—partially because he is lonely after his wife’s passing and partially because he falls in love with the producer of the show, Jessie Jones...
...Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” a play by multi-talented actor Steve Martin (“Father of the Bride??), posits a strange, fictional meeting as the set up for its drama: Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein come together in 1904, when both are young and neither is famous...