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...gonna take you where you've never been," the star announces. Is that a promise or a threat? Actually, she's gonna take you back to all the old familiar places: to clips of early Bette singing "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" as current Bette performs the same steps; to the mermaid chanteuse Dolores Delago, flapping her fin tail as she zips across the stage in a motorized wheelchair; to the '70s anthem "Pretty Legs and Great Big Knockers," its brass and sass intact; to reprises of the signature ballads "The Rose," "The Wind Beneath My Wings" and (the unnecessary...
Politically, Clinton's barb may have been too elliptical and insider-y for voters at home. (In the debate room, it drew applause and boos.) To get it, you needed to have seen the SNL skit and to be familiar with the charge that the press is in love with Obama--in which case, you were probably involved enough to know who you were voting for already. To a Texas or Ohio voter tuning in for the first time, it may have been sympathetic (The media sucks! Woo-hoo!), or it may have been confusing (Uh, getting the first question...
...many American troops, Iraq is now a very familiar place. Though security has improved in some parts of the country, the gains remain fragile. The Pentagon says there will still be 140,000 troops in Iraq in July, up 8,000 from the 132,000 stationed there at the beginning of last year. The increase in troop numbers means that nearly a third of soldiers deployed to war zones, including Iraq and Afghanistan, are on at least their second tour of duty. While the Pentagon doesn't break down these statistics by theater, it's clear that the proportion...
...relationships in “The Soul Thief,” making it difficult to separate one character from another. An unidentified narrator opens the book with a disembodied portrait of Jerome Coolberg, a mysterious genius who pervades every page of Baxter’s work without ever becoming familiar. Early on, Nathanial Mason, the uninspired and confused protagonist, encounters fellow graduate student Theresa on a park bench, where they share an awkward interlude with a homeless man before meeting the infamous Coolberg at a party. Nathanial immediately senses an uncommon and uncomfortable connection with Coolberg, who seems to know...
...done.” After a barrage of sports films tackling the worlds of NASCAR racing, figure skating, and now basketball, Ferrell says this is the end of his athletic movie run. However, “Semi-Pro” does manage to give the familiar underdog plot a slight twist. As Moon, Ferrell plays the owner and team captain of the Tropics, a sub-par American Basketball Association (ABA) team from Flint, MI. When the ABA merges with the NBA, Moon tries to take his team to the big league by shooting for a fourth-place finish. The tension...