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In the movie “Flash of Genius,” Bob Kearns, played by Greg Kinnear, asks his family, “What do I always say?” His son shouts immediately, “Who farted?” With a knowing smile, Kearns replies...
“My characters are galley slaves,” Vladimir Nabokov told the Paris Review in 1967—and he was telling the truth. It isn’t difficult to imagine any one of his memorable protagonists as helpless prisoners, each chained to his oar on...
“What really matters is what you like, not what you are like,” John Cusack says in “High Fidelity.” This advice could be the mantra of the new movie “Nick and Norah’s Infinite...
I have always thought that living alone would be frightening. What if I broke my neck and no one was there to find me? What if something exciting happened and there was no one there to listen to my story? If anything is evident in “Olive Kitteridge?...
Ludacris’ new music video has a lot in common with the 2000 blockbuster “What Women Want,” starring Mel Gibson. Like Gibson’s character, Ludacris has the useful ability to “know what women are thinking—at...