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...engaging as smartly as he does stalwart or tortured, but he gets sabotaged by the cloying script. Even before a long, agonizingly unfunny scene that Skinner spends at the bottom of an empty swimming pool, the film's desperate smile has turned into a rictus. Don't expect to be beguiled by A Good Year. That would be like trying to warm your hands at an artificial fireplace...
...competitive,” Martin says. “Whether you’re internally competitive with yourself or with other teammates, it’s not going to matter. I’m not going to do anything different.”“Obviously I expect to play a bit but that will all be determined by how each one of us performs,” Kessler adds. “Whoever rises to the challenge will wind up playing in the end.”And both have an eye on the bigger picture...
...against ideas, not people.” I think Golding is wrong. He is prejudiced not against ideas, but against generic labels that are applied to people. If, as he purportedly believes, religious affiliation is such a good predictor of political values, then he might expect that Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush (both United Methodists) might be allies in D.C., or that William Safire and Ellen Goodman (both Jewish) would be in accord on every topic they wrote about. I hope Golding sees that, taking other factors into account, coming to either of these conclusions would be utterly ridiculous...
...case, after the amount of press he’s been given in the run-up to this film release, Cohen can’t expect many more credulous interview subjects for Borat. With homosexuality such a fiery political issue lately, perhaps a “Funkyzeit mit Brüno” movie lurks over the horizon? We can only hope...
...party. "In Saddam's day, you had to be a member of the party if you wanted to be a teacher," al-Rawi told me. "Most of us were members only in name, not by conviction - but now it's come back to haunt us. Any day now, I expect them to come...