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...friends who scorned the book's so-called "anti-feminist" leanings and rolled my eyes accommodatingly whenever anyone mentioned Bridget's struggles with a phantom "weight problem" (which was generally understood to fluctuate between five and 15 undesirable pounds). I nodded silently when my mother dismissed the book as "fluff...
...eyes sparkle with charisma as bandleader Josie, Tara Reid makes an agreeably ditsy Melody, and Reid’s boyfriend Carson Daly parodies the hand that feeds him. Is Josie a signal of the end of mindless pop music and culture? Probably not, but as supposedly disposable movie fluff it’s savvier than it has any right...
...central conflict, in which a man who's always in control finds that what he has to do has become almost directly opposed to what he wants to do. The cast, otherwise, is almost uniformly excellent. Ryan's career has all but been damned by her natural fit with fluff like You've Got Mail, and while she is hardly in the same league as heavyweights like Kate Winslet and Julianne Moore, her acting does have a deceptive rawness to it. Crowe, meanwhile, is as skilled as any actor comes-his ability to balance dramatic range with sheer physicality...
...didn't matter that the vice president lacked Clinton's musk; that he was a flustered understudy pushed into the limelight when the star's run had ended. The right could fluff Gore up to satanic status, for nearly the same reason late-night comics could turn his stiffness into schtick. In a business less interested in issues than in personalities, one group of entertainers needed somebody to laugh at; the other group needed somebody to be furious at. The impulse had as much to do with showbiz as with politics. When the post-election fray was joined by Jesse...
...garage, that magnificent union of house's delicious divas and pristine hi-hats with jungle's breakbeats and primal bass. It's sexy, funky and smooth as hell. It's a similar but tastier alternative to the hip-hop fluff dominating American club charts. It's the most enticing dance genre in years...