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...watching a midnight premiere showing of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” it seems that plastic surgery and film directing are not so different. The surgical team of director David Yates and screenwriter Michael Goldenberg performed beautifully, turning the fifth and flabbiest book of the “Harry Potter” series into the tightest, firmest, most attractive film...
...opportunity. Not to fight a possible recession that could be over by summer - that's the Fed's job - but to reset the federal government's expectations of how much its constituents should be forking over every April. And to cut some of the fat out of the two flabbiest documents in the free world: the tax code and the federal budget...
...winter wilderness, once the province of a few hardy sportsmen, now opens up to even the flabbiest American with the newest things in snow-gadgetry. The snowmobile is a motor scooter on skis and can go where skiers fear to tread, and without risk of torn ligaments and strained muscles. It is, in fact, ideal for the man who prefers to get his thrills sitting down...
...Daughters (book, music and lyrics by Eaton Magoon Jr.) conscientiously adds its mite to making this Broadway's flabbiest season in years. About equally lavish and leaden, 13 Daughters takes place in 19th century Hawaii and stars Don Ameche as an amiably wily Chinese millionaire with 13 daughters to marry off. If that is not trouble enough, there is a Hawaiian custom that no daughter can marry till the eldest does, and a Hawaiian curse that none of Ameche's shall marry at all. Before the ban gives way to the banns, there is a lot of Hawaiian...
...Quivering with vitality," cried the Herald-Tribune, "and full of humor!" As a form of encouragement, such acclaim made sense: Call Me By My Right-fid Name offers enough good things to promise better ones. Moreover, during Broadway's flabbiest theater season in years and a week when one play closed after opening night and another should have. Call Me might less be tested for gold than treated as manna...
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