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...This - along with the fact than Wilson is one of three brothers (Andrew and Luke are in movies too) - concludes the witness report on the coincidences between Francis Whitman and Owen Wilson. Enough already. I feel creepy just passing this information along, as if a critic were auditioning to be a coroner...
Students remember Sommers as a teacher who reviewed drafts meticulously, returning notes in different colors of ink from multiple readings. This fall, she brought English professor and New Yorker critic James Wood into her classroom to discuss the works of author Joan Didion and invited an acting coach to teach public speaking...
...head of the LDP's biggest faction. Civilian appointee Hiroya Masuda, a former prefectural governor and regional reformer, becomes Abe's interior minister in charge of addressing the concerns rural voters left out of Japan's urban-centered economic recovery. Popular LDP member of parliament Yoichi Masuzoe, a vocal critic of Abe's, will become minister of health, labor and welfare. It's an important but uncoveted position: Masuzoe must untangle the mishandling of as many as 50 million pension accounts, a scandal that helped cost the LDP control of the upper house...
...pretty small minority of critics who aren't enchanted by the Apatow movies. The first four reviews I read online this morning of Superbad, all by women, in the New York and L.A. Timeses and the Washington and New York Posts, ranged from favorable to ecstatic. Manohla Dargis' notice in the New York Times described the film's phallo-neurosis with a gusto that soared into poetry: "If the penis is puzzled in Portnoy's Complaint, as Alexander Portnoy's shrink believes, in Superbad it is thoroughly, stunningly clueless and as violently tremulous as a divining rod at Hoover...
...That distinction is lost on Spanish artists, who feel underrepresented at Documenta and have long toiled in obscurity even as Spanish chefs became international superstars. Others complain that the move signals the banalization of Documenta. "Both Adrià's participation and contribution seem ridiculous to me," sniffed the great art critic Robert Hughes, adding that "food is food." Adrià counters that his critics don't understand what he does or his role in the art show. "My work is my menu," he says. "It wouldn't be respectful of art to try to bring El Bulli to Documenta." Instead, Documenta would...