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...Heart Huckabees,” which may or may not be a bad thing depending on how you feel about his recent tendency to ignore his natural talent.Emma Thompson, however, completely saves the film at some of its worst moments. She throws herself into a stereotype—a dark author with writer’s block, who duses phrases like “fantastically depressing”—and plays her character as a modern, witty Virginia Woolf. It’s fascinating, too, to watch her face off against Queen Latifah, who plays her assistant...
...love duets in recent memory. ODB howls like a stray dog over Macy Gray’s breathy hook and Damon Elliot’s slick production, delivering lines that no other rapper could successfully spit: after cataloguing, for Macy’s benefit, a number of after-dark outdoor sex acts, ODB suggests that they could, “go to the movies / I don’t care which movie / I just wanna get some popcorn and make it salty.” “Lift Ya Skirt” and “ODB, Don?...
...this pared down power that makes them appealing to such a wide demographic. There may not be any other recent band—the Black Keys only formed in 2001—that draws such a variety of fans, partly because no one else remains so loyal to the dark honesty of the blues with enough creativity to prevent it from getting old. There is an honesty to their songs, accentuated in their live performance, that seems to call out to everyone and no one at once.While the White Stripes branch out, and other blues-rock combos have fallen...
...secure enough? For the first decade after the ADX was built, the citizens of Florence weren't worried much about the secretive compound, which is only conspicuous when the sun goes down and its banks of light towers glow against the dark horizon. But when Moussaoui, the crazed 9/11 wannabe hijacker, arrived to considerable media fanfare in May 2006, some locals started to feel as if they were living beside a tempting terrorist target. People weren't so much concerned that someone would break out of the fortified ADX, but rather they wondered what would prevent an al-Qaeda squad...
...Carlyon screws himself up in his chair, crossing his lean legs and leaning forward in emphasis. His writing style is resolutely plain. "I've got a fear of decoration," he says. "I hate adverbs." That mix of passion and clarity gives you the sense of being led through a dark landscape by a guide who's determined to make you see what it looks like in sunlight. In short takes "like scenes in a film," Carlyon plunges from the tranquil present to the midst of battle and back. "All is quiet, and the place speaks to you," he writes...