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...website criticism is on the rise, one reason may be that so much professional reviewing has gone squishy. In film reviewing, for instance, a proliferation of review outlets--small-circulation newspapers, local radio stations, dubious entertainment news services--has provided studios with an army of compliant "reviewers" who can be counted on to provide glowing reviews, or at least quotable blurbs, after being wined and dined at studio junkets. When the news broke earlier this year that Sony Pictures was promoting some of its films by inventing quotes from "David Manning," a nonexistent critic, you had to wonder why they...
...movie in one year (after "Ghost World") comes out in October. Based on Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's deeply creepy Jack-the-Ripper series of the same title, it stars Johnny Depp and Heather Graham. The original creators had nothing to do with the adaptation and it sounds dubious, but we shall see. Meanwhile the original authors are coming out with another single-issue comic, "Snakes and Ladders," self-published by Campbell in September. Apparently it involves Oliver Cromwell and the pre-Raphaelites and the history of the universe...
...dating back to A.D. 70. But it's not much to look at, just an ordinary house on an ordinary street. Built in 1568, it now caters to a few score local Jews and thousands of tourists. The narrow lane leading to the synagogue is full of shops selling dubious antiques and cheap handicrafts. Inside, the main hall is awash in gaudy colors, far too much gold paint and more chandeliers than any ceiling should be expected to bear. It seems less a place of worship than a curiosity, and the resident "guide" seems principally interested in selling postcards...
George has been at times a difficult man to root for. Had it not been for Yoko, the Beatles’ breakup might well have been pinned on George's increasing assertiveness as a songwriter and increasing inability to get along with Paul. George was the colorless Beatle, the dubious target of allegations of plagiarism, the man whose wife so cruelly inspired his lovestruck best friend Eric Clapton to write “Layla.” (And when the couple divorced and Clapton married Patti Harrison, who could not help but feel that the better man had finally...
...best-performing investment), it didn?t want to push its luck. Just like it was understandable that Big Tobacco settled with states - taking its future immunity, raising prices and running - instead of challenging whether the states really deserved to reimbursed. And it?s equally understandable that governments, faced with (dubious) evidence that higher per-pack prices reduce youth smoking, would want to punish Big Tobacco for marketing to teens...