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JCVD His career and life on the skids, movie stud Jean-Claude Van Damme comes home to Brussels and gets tangled in a bank-heist drama. Director Mabrouk El Mechri weaves real and reel life into a dark meta-comedy. As for the star, he deserves not a black belt but an Oscar...
...Shield's unflinchingness, and creator Shawn Ryan's brutal writing, has made it as disturbing as any HBO drama. The final episodes are even more so. Seeing Shane's toddler on the run with him and his wife is almost unbearable, and Goggins plays the pathetic, mentally overmatched Shane like a cornered rat. Chiklis, meanwhile, is masterly. He defined Mackey with his Mr. Clean physique, but his most valuable body parts are his eyes. To the end, as his options narrow and it becomes clear Mackey has destroyed everything he's tried to build, they dart about, looking...
...especially for those who, like me, grew up idolizing Velociraptors and wanting to visit Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton ’64 died of cancer at the age of 66. As fate would also have it, “ER”—the primetime TV medical drama Crichton created, wrote, and produced—is in the midst of its 15th and final season, ending after February sweeps in 2009. As can already be seen in other medical dramas like “House,” Crichton’s absence in this genre will...
...celebrated is because it inspires house spirit in this post-randomization age of apathy. People piled into the upper common room last Thursday to try the house beer for the same reason they got riled up during the Eliot vs. Adams rug scandal of 2008 and the Pfoho gong drama of ’99. Our ancestral sense of house spirit was called forth. We wanted to be a part of a petty demonstration of house pride like that displayed on Housing Day. And since beer was involved, we were ready with our war paint...
...Obama's nonconfrontational response impede progress on resolving the dispute with Moscow over missile defense? Probably not. Given the Democrat's ambiguous position on the issue, Russia is unlikely to accept any U.S. deal offered in the interregnum after his election. Yet Obama's "no drama" reaction at least avoided confrontation and bought him some time to pull together a foreign policy team and decide where he really stands on the deployment of missile defense to Europe. As former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage used to say, "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggy' while looking...