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...charm of the first Star Wars movies was the murkiness of these new worlds and the inability of the camera to do justice to them—there was so much that seemed just outside the frame. These movies were not spectacular, but palpable. The cantina scene in the original Star Wars is beloved not for its marvelous vistas, but for its seediness and its character and its suggestion of colliding worlds and species. The bicycles-across-the-moon scene in E.T. has a magical simplicity. Now filmmakers have the power to cram anything they want into the frame. Imagine...
...LANDS IN CHARM SCHOOL...
...Babe Ruth, whom he called a "second father"; of a heart attack; in Valley Cottage, N.Y. Ruth noticed Kelly one day as the three-year-old was playing catch with his dad in Manhattan's Riverside Park. For the next decade, "Little Ray" was a bench-warming lucky charm for the Yankees...
...early 1970s we used to sit around a little caf? and listen to old-timers talk about the harlequin days before the war when Cambodia was full of charm. Even the poor ate well then, we were told. We fervently wanted to believe that some day, when the fighting was over, the country would return to that bucolic ideal. It never happened. The war never really ended, as the pictures in this book painfully remind us. If you look closely around the edges of Neveu's pictures taken in the 1990s you see a modicum of prosperity and happiness creeping...
...been too busy making fun of it. Much pleasure awaits those who have the time in their day for some harmless “Real World” bashing (in other words, poking fun at seeing a supposedly uncontrived soap opera). But nonetheless, the inherent charm of watching a group of twenty-somethings whine and complain about their meaningless relationships and the arduous task of “finding themselves” without any form of acting is completely undeniable. With the tenth season underway and another just now casting, it’s obvious, yet surprising, that such...