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...lobbied for a new bankruptcy law in 2005 to make it easier for lenders to go after people struggling to pay their bills, Kuhlmann held a press conference with Senators Ted Kennedy and Russ Feingold to say the law would hurt ordinary people down on their luck. It was classic Kuhlmann: a mixture of genuine outrage and savvy marketing message...
...isn’t the only art that will be on display. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the release of the legendary album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” the Harvard Square Business Association and Boston-area classic rock radio station WZLX (100.7 FM) have prepared selections of artwork by many of the Beatles, making The Ringo Starr Fine Art Show the largest collection of signed Beatles artwork ever assembled, according to organizers...
...That pretty much leaves us with Cerdan, radiating good nature and a casual pleasure in his own celebrity, to make us feel good for a few moments, and with Piaf's uncanny voice, still thrilling, still moving in her classic songs. It's easy to make us believe that her sad life conditioned the rueful timbre she imparts to her music. Maybe too easy. It's possible that her natural vocal quality was the one lucky accident in her unlucky life. Which, considering the fame, money and sympathetic regard she collected was not - considered from an objective viewpoint - all that...
...Here's where I have to say: It isn't that good. Not quite "an instant classic, a comedy that captures the sexual confusion and moral ambivalence of our moment without straining, pandering or preaching," as the Times' Tony Scott opined (in, I have to add, a brilliantly written review). Nor can I agree with the declaration of my friend Richard Schickel, here on TIME.com, that "Apatow, represents, for the moment at least, the best in American movie comedy ... a throwback to the kind of screenwriters who created the classic romantic comedies of the 1930s...
...Avery's cartoons (starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig) and many other cartoons of the 1930s and '40s include jokes that kids don't have the cultural experience to understand. Shrek is the same. Do kids still need wonder and magic? Of course they do. Do they need classic stories turned into happily-ever-after tripe that doesn't even resemble the original? Absolutely not. Poniewozik only alluded to the fact that the Grimm brothers' fairy tales were originally quite grim and scary. So where can we find healthful magic for kids? Outside in nature and in books that...