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...films this month with mammoth, John Woo-movie-like explosions in parody form; next week's Tropic Thunder is the other. It is also the second movie this week in which a major plot point is an older man's promise to meet with his student girlfriend's parents. (Cf. Elegy, a romantic drama that has nothing else in common with Pineapple Express.) Finally, it's the third picture this summer, and the eighth in the past 14 months, that was produced, written or otherwise perpetrated by Apatow. Take a deep breath: Knocked Up, Superbad, Walk Hard, Drillbit Taylor, Forgetting...
Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 What's the point in climbing Everest if you can't blog from the summit? An ordinary laptop would freeze up in the extreme cold, but the Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 ($3,200) can operate in temperatures ranging from -4°F to 140°F (-20°C to 60°C). Bashed around by scientists to ensure that it meets U.S. military standards, it's also guaranteed to work after a fall from up to 3 ft. (0.9 m). www.panasonic.com...
...equally speaks to the real appeal of Duchovny’s oft-soused scribe as it does to Parker’s pot-dealing mother of two. Fundamentally, these series are clever dramatizations of what is really the commonest of phenomena, one dignified by the greatest of American playwrights (cf. Willy Loman) and immortalized by the deftest of contemporary lyricists (cf. Rick Ross’s “Everyday I’m Hustling”). These are people, blemished in ways that particularly appeal to those aged 18-34, who are quite simply trying to get by. This...
...tendencies of one’s deepest thoughts reach the point when they are freely allowed to rear their head in real life, you can be certain of two things. One, you’re crazy. And two, you might just end up being a pretty successful rap star (cf. Kanye). But not long into “Gimme That,” it becomes sorrowfully clear that self-centeredness à la Mr. West does not necessarily make a good rap video. The video begins with the St. Louis rapper nodding off in a chair, followed by a zoom...
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