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...literature concentrator now, daily obliged to read mass quantities of theory about exactly such things, and now it seems less insane. But once our class hit adolescent skepticism, we were convinced our parents had mistakenly joined a cult. In those days, bitching about Waldorf was a standard activity, whether our parents were New Age healers or average types who just didn’t like the public school in their district. When we were kids it was because we weren’t allowed to watch TV and weren’t supposed to use computers until high school. Throughout...
...very strange, which is what you would expect from director Paul Thomas Anderson of Magnolia and Boogie Nights. What you don't expect is an art film starring Sandler, whose lowbrow comedies have earned nearly $400 million since 1998 and have made him an idol of teenage boys, a cult figure on college campuses and a punch line for dismissive film critics. Punch-Drunk Love--for which Anderson received a best-director award at Cannes--is making the dumb-and-dumber Sandler persona seem smart and smarter...
...Hanks all have aging fan bases. But Sandler's demographic is golden: his disciples range from 10 to 30, and he has a surprisingly large female following, which makes up about 40% of his opening-weekend audience. Not bad for a guy who loves poo jokes. "He has a cult following of millions," says Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box-office-tracking firm Exhibitor Relations. "The thing about his audience--they are growing up with him, and they're still in that most-frequent-moviegoer category." Adam Sandler appears to be growing up but not wearing thin. Nothing dumb about...
...family would not preserve them properly; some he felt were not appropriate for the charity shops she had designated; some he intended to return but could not "because my memories of the death of the Princess were still much too raw." For most people in Britain, however, the cult of Diana has dulled. Other public occasions of grief, such as Sept. 11 and the Queen Mother's death, as well as happy ones like the Queen's Jubilee, have intervened. Her sons, so poignantly vulnerable in 1997, have grown up. The husband who made her life miserable has rehabilitated himself...
...effort, a psycho road movie called Morvern Callar, Ramsay may finally be positioned for box-office success. Her movie has a riveting - and bankable - young star, Samantha Morton (Minority Report). It has a respectable budget, $6 million, and a hip provenance: it's based on Alan Warner's 1995 cult novel, which was part of a Scottish literary charge that also yielded Irving Welsh's Trainspotting - and that became an international smash-hit movie. And if any further proof were needed that Morvern Callar isn't destined to be just another much-lauded "little film," it wasn't even shortlisted...