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...Perhaps, then, it's a good thing they have been commemorated in Confessions of a Shopaholic, a movie adaptation of Sophie Kinsella's series of novels about a shopping-obsessed, debt-ridden young English journalist named Becky Bloomwood (Isla Fisher). As a romantic comedy, it is forgettable. But as an ill-timed anthropological artifact, Confessions offers weird pleasures, not least among them the fact that it makes us root for the debt collector. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...Reframed in the movie as an American, Becky is a classic case of the aspirational shopper, scarred by a childhood full of sensible brown shoes and thrift-store shopping with her mother (Joan Cusack, who in real life is all of 14 years older than Fisher). "When I shop, the world gets better," Becky says dreamily. "And then it's not, and I need to do it again...
...ours, but unfortunately we didn’t come out ready to play.”The Crimson will hope for sharper play when the team faces off against No. 12 Boston College tonight at 5 p.m. in the Beanpot Consolation Game.—Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...JAKE I. FISHER...
...also see time in a starting singles position. The Crimson will continue its spring season in two weeks at the ECAC Team Tournament in Hanover, N.H. Harvard will play a two-month preseason schedule before starting Ivy League play in April. —Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...