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Cassandra's Dream is the name of a long-shot greyhound who wins a race and makes a small fortune for an addicted gambler named Terry (Colin Farrell). It is entirely appropriate for him to give the name to the smart little sailboat he and his brother Ian (Ewan McGregor) buy with his winnings. It is also believable that these working-class lads would not know much about the lady after whom the speedy canine was named - mythology's great purveyor of doomy portents. It is, finally, appropriate for Woody Allen to find the title for his movie in this...
...handle - especially for the guilt-ridden Terry. It perhaps gives nothing away to say that his reaction to what he has done takes Allen into emotional territory he has not this fully explored in his previous reflections on capital crimes. Which is not to say that Cassandra's Dream is quite the breakthrough film I think it might have been. It is a talkative film, rather earnest in its tonalities, not at all a deft, witty or well-paced. On the other hand, it is, for Allen, a comparatively rare excursion into lower-class life - the setting is London...
...fabulous country house, the upscale condo in town, its general air of luxe. You might not like its people, but you couldn't help but admire their lifestyles. "I want that," an inner voice kept crying, as if it were a TV commercial sound bite. Cassandra's Dream is much more tough-minded. And much less immediately appealing. I walked out of the screening, over a month ago, admiring it, but not deeply moved. Yet the movie has stayed with me as a lot of the more heralded year-end films have not. There was a time in his career...
Marshal Cohen of NPD Group says two factors are pushing the market up: parents are expressing their own status by outfitting their kids, and today's kids, raised in a culture in which tweens dream of dressing like the fashionistas on Gossip Girl, are more clothes-conscious than ever and influence their parents' purchasing decisions. "As early as age 6, kids are getting more and more involved in choosing the products, including what they wear," says Cohen. "And the fact that you can't tell them what to wear is really driving the market...
...because of Mandy. People thought, These guys are important people," Barker says. He's considering hiring her again, perhaps for his upcoming 30th-birthday weekend in Key West, Fla. "Celebrities are always whining about people following them around," he says. "We're like, Are you kidding? That's our dream...