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...edgy narrative style (each story unfolds in real time), a cinematic look and no laugh track--but the safe heart of a network show. As a lounge singer of a certain age sleeping with her band's married guitarist, Seinfeld alumna Julia Louis-Dreyfus, above, has a bittersweet charm (and, yes, she can sing), but it's lost amid wacky-neighbor jokes and slapstick. Faith, from Sex and the City scribe Jenny Bicks, wears its cable pedigree too obviously. Faith (Sarah Paulson, in red) dumps her fiance--a man so clearly wrong for her she must have fallen...
...parent--to snip the last invisible thread connecting a generation to the one preceding it. Now picture yourself standing in the house where you grew up, bickering with your siblings over the spoons in the junk drawer, sobbing over the Christmas ornaments or fighting over Daddy's good-luck charm...
...novel tossed in. More Tom Sawyer than Huckleberry Finn, with the accent on a soft center rather than on gritty harder edges, the formerly "re-educated" Dai Sijie's first novel - a best seller in France - is still a diverting bagatelle abounding in gentle humor, warm bonhomie and appealing charm. No small triumph for a tale set in that unhappy era not too long ago when "every nook and cranny of the land came under the all-seeing eye of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which had cast its gigantic fine-meshed net over the whole of China...
...Beanie Babies when a friend pointed out that Beanie Babies were a pretty recent phenomenon. “Hey, they really helped me during the SATs,” she said defensively. The stunned silence of her friends prompted an explanation: “They were a good luck charm! I lined them around my desk!” Leonard’s friends have stopped returning her calls...
...feel-good" work. Lord knows we could use more of that in our lives, but it's a pretty low bar for art. Certainly as a work of fiction this series could be easily dismissed as impossibly cute and unbelievable. Yet it happened. So instead it has the charm and delights of a real fairy tale...