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...celebrated movie roles as she rode down Mass. Ave. in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Woman of the Year parade yesterday afternoon. Halfway through the parade route, a man held up a cardboard sign reading, “You complete me,” a nod to the classic phase from Zellweger’s movie “Jerry Maguire.” Zellweger, also known for her appearances in “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” “Chicago,” and “Cold Mountain...
...people in sympathetic and warmingly familiar terms. This shines through as he sings about a man in love with a supermarket worker in “Queen of the Supermarket.” This song, in collusion with a number of similarly heartfelt tracks on the album, smacks of classic Boss, poeticizing the seemingly banal and imbuing moments of tenderness into otherwise unnoteworthy situations. Surprisingly, Springsteen’s crowning achievement on the album appears as a bonus track. “The Wrestler,” which is featured at the end of the movie of the same name...
...reason why that song stands so far above the mediocrity of the other tracks. Despite these weaknesses, there are still some delights to be had on “Get Guilty.” Stately opener “There Are Maybe Ten or Twelve” is a classic Newman song, featuring lyrics that outline the intriguing ambiguity of much of his work – “There are maybe ten or twelve things I could teach you / After that, well, you’re on your own.” Closer...
...humorless sidekick. George Tillman, Jr. directs “Notorious” like it’s a boilerplate rap music video: there’s technique and bling to burn, but the whole film is so literal, so resolutely un-fun. When Biggie enters the studio to record classic “Juicy” halfway through the film, it becomes painfully evident that the rapper could tell his own story in five minutes much better than any film can in two hours. The rags-to-riches story “Juicy” delivered was both affecting...
...lose the protection of helicopter gunships circling overhead. "We were fighting a modern 21st-century army, and we're just a guerrilla resistance movement," he says. "What did you expect - for us to stand in a field and wait for the Israelis to mow us down?" Indeed, in the classic guerrilla playbook, the insurgent army avoids going toe-to-toe with a conventional force armed with vastly superior weapons, armor and air support. If he has a choice, the guerrilla seeks to survive to fight another day and allow his adversary's momentum to work against him in terms...