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...Byrne), formerly the bank's favorite hit man. The scene, which required the duplication in Munich of Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark gallery, lasts about 15 minutes and should keep all customers satisfied, as Salinger and the Consultant briefly team up to blast their way out. It makes fine use of Wright's spiraling strip, lacking only a climactic getaway via motorcycle, wheelchair or roller skates...
...five finalists are fine films. But The Reader, Frost/Nixon and Milk aren't so much movies as TV movies: sensitive explorations of major political themes, little pictures on big subjects. It's the stuff more likely to show up on HBO than at the AMC multiplex. Why does the Academy keep citing these (excellent) little movies over the (excellent) big ones, whose scope and excitement can't be duplicated on the small screen? (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...remember jokes. They remember whether the host set the celebratory mood, as Crystal did. Our job was to get out of the way of Jackman's charm, and if that meant ordering room service and letting the other writers do all the actual lyric-writing, then I was a fine hire. All the good jokes, by the way, were mine...
...should say, "We are never concerned enough with our appearance!" But it has become so important, how we look to others. Sometimes it is too much. We can be fine in life without the latest Armani dress. We can be happy just seeing a film with friends. But this is the trend now, to worry about our appearance...
...animosity between Mugabe's regime and Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is unlikely to be cured by a few fine words. Mugabe's security forces have spent the past nine years beating and killing members of the MDC. After a general election on March 29, 2008, which the ruling Zanu-PF lost and in which Mugabe came in second to Tsvangirai in the presidential vote, security forces and their allies killed nearly 200 activists and injured thousands more in a campaign of terrorism across the country. Tsvangirai himself has been beaten more than once. Even after Mugabe...