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...that caught both the middle-aged actresses on stage and the middle-aged audience, staring at the women and sharing their discomfort. In the second act, the animosities festering in the two main couples explodes into rancorous fantasy in the faux-Ziegfeld "Loveland" section, and Bennett gave Sondheim's comic-poignant torch songs and novelty numbers a splendor that both mocked and deepened the characters' self-pity or numbness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway's Fabulous Follies | 5/12/2007 | See Source »

...particularly liked the Coen Brothers piece about an American tourist (Steve Buscemi), waiting for a Metro train, who does not heed his guidebook's advice (don't make eye contact with strangers) with comic-violent results, Wes Craven's work about a pair of bickering British tourists visiting Oscar Wilde's grave site in the Père-Lachaise cemetery with romantically restorative results, and Tom Twyker's take on a faltering love affair between a pair of young people, one of whom is blind, yet is also a brave and wily navigator of the sighted world. There's even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Exquisite Films of Paris | 5/11/2007 | See Source »

...What team I drive for next season, I don't know," Earnhardt said matter-of-factly while reading from his notes, adding with unintended and almost comic understatement, "We'll see what opportunities I have. We'll see who wants to hire me, who's interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Solo Journey for Dale Earnhardt, Jr. | 5/11/2007 | See Source »

Inside, the atmosphere was more like an expensive tea party than a wedding. For an hour, the female guests just stared at one another's jewelry. Shortly before dinner, my husband messaged to inform me that the men's side had a stand-up comic. So unfair. Even the bride looked dejected, arms folded tightly across her designer gown. After the sumptuous meal, intended to lighten the misery (it didn't), the guests eagerly filed out to look for their men. "I'm not sure what's worse," a friend mused on the way out, "having a fun mixed wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Tehran | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...Just ask comic actor Liam Sullivan. He’s the creator of the aptly-titled “txt msg brkup,” a six and-a-half minute YouTube sensation that provides some much-needed social commentary on the perils of the text message in regards to romance...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE MALCOM X-FACTOR: Y I H8 Txt Msgs: Ban Gets It Right | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

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