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...Story” (featuring Allen in a decently compelling performance) is in my top-ten list, and “Finding Nemo” never disappoints. Both of those movies succeed based on their ability to bring out the gleeful child within the bitterest cynic. “The Shaggy Dog” doesn’t come remotely close to replicating the same coup de cinema...
...describe him in terms of substance, only in terms of image. You’d be hard pressed to come up with someone in music who owes more to the novelty of their existence and less to the quality of their music. But hey, nobody likes a cynic, so let’s not dismiss Matisyahu just for being different—as long as he doesn’t try and cash in on his differences, right? Well, enter the video for the first single, “Youth,” off the upcoming album of the same...
Though you write like a true cynic, you show the integrity to actually find out for yourself, see what is there, and speak what you see. So many other pieces just follow the norm of bashing Scientology and twist all the facts to suit their pre-conceived or antagonistic ideas. My applause to you for your stopping at the edge and refusing to jump off the cliffs of insanity with the other journalistic lemmings...
...that they can be redeemed, right here, right now, if they just put their minds to it. But, as the Scientologists themselves say, if it’s not true for me, then it’s not true. I imagine I’ll always be an inarticulate cynic. I’ll also always surprise myself, for better or worse. And maybe, just maybe, Scientology wouldn’t be the worst thing, after...
...Dour of disposition and without family, he's drawn to his hot-blooded Croatian nurse, Marijana Jokic, whose troublesome brood he offers to support. At which point "the unattractively freckled, somewhat fleshy shoulders" of Elizabeth Costello appear up his stairs. Is she an authorial intervention? A meddling cupid? A cynic about his real intentions with the Jokics, whom she sees as more avaricious than angelic? Or is she the amputee's perfect companion? In Slow Man, she's all of the above, and a wonderful literary conceit to boot. But most of all, she's a refreshingly down-to-earth...