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...Roger Ebert, who's 65 this week, began writing on movies 40 years ago, mainly as a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, but syndicated to some 200 newspapers. He's created a body of work - virtually all of it available on his handsome, helpful website - that is as broad, deep, reliable and rewarding as it is insanely prolific. I'll take a blind stab and say Roger has written more than 10,000 individual movie reviews, plus another 3,000 or so essays...
...McGovern, a critic of Fowler-Finn, replaces Walser, this could spell trouble for the superintendent, whose contract comes up again for renewal in January 2008, when the new School Committee will be in office...
...Being a leader doesn't mean bashing everything all the time, and at the same time, being a leader doesn't mean being a cheerleader,” McGovern said, in probable reference to Nolan, a longtime critic of the school district's administration, and veteran committee member Nancy Walser, Fowler-Finn's strongest supporter...
Never have I felt so in tune with a critic as I did while reading Richard Schickel's review of the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie [June 4]. He was right that you can't follow the story while wide awake but that sleeping is out of the question because the movie is too noisy. I had no idea what the characters were doing but I loved watching them do it. My husband said if they make another one, it will be about the fountain of youth. I responded, "Oh, Lord, you mean they might make another...
...critic Jacques Barzun once famously (well, famously among sports fans) observed, "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better know baseball." The citizens of NASCAR Nation would, today, reasonably argue with that. Please quote me no Yankee Stadium attendance figures; baseball at present is a disgrace--the subject of government inquiries, an industry as rife with known and suspected cheaters as Wall Street circa 2000. Is this the heart and mind of America? Maybe it is, but not as we'd like...