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...Meanwhile, over at an old row house that's being renovated into chilly modernity, Janine (Jennifer Connelly, an Oscar winner, in case you forgot) thumbs through issues of Dwell magazine and worries that her husband Ben (Bradley Cooper) is sneaking cigarettes. Ben's smoking should be the least of Janine's worries, given his flirtation with Anna (Scarlett Johansson), the world's most jiggly yoga instructor. The smarmy Ben and the self-involved Anna utterly deserve each other. What does the wan Janine deserve? For starters, a large portion of Baltimore's finest crab cakes; this formerly lush beauty appears...
...answer is cost. In the West Virginia drug-testing case, which is currently working its way through the federal court system, Judge Joseph Goodwin of the U.S. District Court noted that it costs about $44 a pop to do urine tests, which would cost the West Virginia school district in question about $37,000 a year. (Here's a PDF of Goodwin's preliminary injunction against drug-testing.) That same $37,000 could easily pay for a full-time teacher, meaning that drug-testing would have to be sufficiently valuable to displace an entire teaching position...
...acceptance material from Sundance kept stressing how the festival was about having your work seen by an audience and not about the awards, which made it clear that it was all about winning an award. It also kept addressing everything to the director, in this case a team of respected visual artists called Walter Robot, instead of to me, the star and writer. Sundance seems to think directors matter. As if people fly to Utah for a film festival because it was started by the director of The Legend of Bagger Vance...
Echo has a different assignment each episode--the three sent for review are a hostage case, a wilderness adventure and a heist caper--which makes Dollhouse a kind of drama-school exercise for Whedon and Dushku. The genre-hopping Whedon is up to the task; his hostage-negotiation story would make a crisp pilot for a CBS procedural. And he unsettlingly conveys the actives' experience of living a constantly interrupted dream. ("Did I fall asleep?" they ask after each treatment.) But Dushku, memorable as the bad-girl Faith in Buffy, isn't much of a chameleon. She's passably callow...
Like Palin, Dati is a special case; but the harder the times, the heavier the symbolism. And since Dati raced back to her desk amid a global economic meltdown, her decision took on a public as well as a personal dimension. A French feminist compared her to women in the 1920s who gave birth on the factory floor and kept working for fear of losing their job. Another called her choice "scandalous" since employers could use it to "put intolerable pressure on women" to take less time off. What a pernicious example at a moment when workers are already anxious...