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...brief review in TIME magazine this week, I gave Dan a gentleman's B-. Let me try to remember why. Because the pressure of keeping his ardor secret turns Dan pleasingly cranky. "I am going to make myself unattractive," he whispers to Marie, "so as not to encourage inappropriate feelings" - but by then he's already become way less adorable. When he's at the edge of a lake with some of the kids, they're skipping stones across the water; Dan throws a rock with the fury of a Spartan at Thermopylae. Emily Blunt, a beguiler in My Summer...
...Yannatos’ instruments as the members alertly watched for his cues and perfectly complemented the orchestra with their voices. As the instruments faded, the choir hummed on and off into the night as they exited. Finally, the sound was hushed and left the theatre in stunned silence. This brief moment of awe was just one of the many highlights of a fantastic performance. Bravo, HRO, Bravo...
...life sentence, it was surprisingly brief. Only six weeks after being convicted of plundering an estimated $15 million from public coffers during his two-year reign, deposed former President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada today walked out of the posh estate where he has been under house arrest, pardoned by the woman who replaced him, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. "There is no substitute for freedom," Estrada told reporters upon his release...
...family retreat to a Rhode Island beach house, charades, and touch football. But the main story centers around Dan’s immediate attraction to a woman (Juliette Binoche of “Chocolat”), whom he meets in an otherwise abandoned bookstore. Following their intense and brief connection, Dan returns to the beach house—bragging about his encounter like a love-sick seventh grader—only to be introduced moments later to the mystery woman herself. She is actually dating his brother Mitch, a superficial aerobic instructor played by Dane Cook. Binoche?...
...that nothing else is going on; instead, she jerkily moves around the stage, rubbing her cheeks against sparkly skull-shaped microphones and looking as if she’s in arthritic pain. The only redeeming moment comes when she wiggles her bum for the camera, but the wiggling is brief and, well, old news. —Jenny...