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There is - or so we like to think - a natural order to mortality. As Philip Roth observes in The Dying Animal, of which Elegy is a very faithful adaptation, we expect our grandparents to be the first to go, then our parents, then (unimaginably) ourselves - a very long time in the future...
...Crosby Road pictures) to the '80s (¡Three Amigos!). It speaks to the bluster and resilience of show people; when in mortal peril, they do improv and survive. The difference in Tropic Thunder is that the main characters are more eccentric than likable. That's just what you'd expect in a Stiller movie...
...Vermont house is a large rock, the subject of family lore: in the '70s, Solzhenitsyn sat his sons astride the rock and told them that someday it would turn into a flying horse and take them back to Russia. It was the sort of fairy tale you might expect a writer to tell his kids, but this one came true...
...what can a press pool, liberated from nearly eight years of "vacations" in dusty Crawford, Texas, expect in Hawaii? First and foremost, some time at Hawaii's justifiably famous beaches. Obama, who spent much of his childhood near Hawaii's best-known beach, Waikiki, is a big fan of bodysurfing. His favorite spot is a place called Sandy's Beach on the windward side of the island. Much of Oahu outside of Waikiki is for locals - in fact, the island has permitted the construction of only four hotels outside of Waikiki - and the eastern coast, where Sandy's is found...
Perhaps it would be unreasonable to expect that, even as the Opening Ceremonies creep closer, the Olympians can think sports 24/7 in the Village. After swearing off extracurricular activity, Trupish, the Canadian boxer, and Kahlon, the field-hockey player, huddled with two countrymen and walked toward the square. "Maybe we can find that girl," one of them said...