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...soon-to-be-Oscar-winning performance, offers an easy way out. It mixes clichés of cultural nostalgia with the classic American tale of rags-to-riches. Comforting, perhaps, but somewhat trite in an age of wholesale corporate layoffs and a widening divide between bourgeois and blue-collar. If anything, the film offers a longing glimpse into a world we no longer possess: many have noted that in today’s record industry, Ray Charles would never have left the lounge-bar circuit...
...swear every Mummy and/or Indiana Jones movie begins this way: an archaeological site in the desert, and the brown-skinned, blue-collar laborer who discovers the one artifact all WASPier scholarly types have been hunting. Then the information that the Spear of Destiny was last seen during World War II —it must have been the Nazi backup plan after the whole Holy Grail debacle in Alexandretta. Constantine’s ride, the Angel City cab, even uses the transportation-name-as-witty-commentary trick of A Streetcar Named Desire, or more recently, The Royal Tenenbaums?...
...victim, who was not injured in the robbery, reported to police that the first suspect was a black male, 18 to 20 years old and approximately 6 feet tall, wearing a “gray puffy jacket with a fur collar and hood,” according to a community advisory released by HUPD...
...fact that I was in both a pro-popped-collar group and an anti-popped-collar group caused quite a bit of strife,” he says. “To placate the anti-popped collar group, I sent them a picture of me wearing a shirt with the collar in the proper manner, but apparently this wasn’t enough to convince them that I had solidarity with their cause...
Isaacs' personal life has been a piece of cake compared with her protagonist's. In addition to being a novelist, she has worked as a political speechwriter and a screenwriter. Isaacs has been happily married to white-collar-criminal defense attorney Elkan Abramowitz for 36 years. He was a hit with her family from day one, says the author. "They adored my husband. My maternal grandmother said, 'You've got someone from the Ivory League!'" --By Andrea Sachs