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...stunning memoir about a girl growing up in a small town with her cryptic, perfectionist dad and slowly realizing that a) she is gay and b) he is too. Oh, and it's a comic book: Bechdel's breathtakingly smart commentary duets with eloquent line drawings. Forget genre and sexual orientation: this is a masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other...
Fifty-one-point-one million dollars. Forget about how many Harvard educations that could buy, or even how that is almost four times the previous record posting of $13.1 million. It is higher than the 2006 payrolls of five Major League teams. It is nearly half of Boston’s own 2006 payroll—all for one player’s ear! This doesn’t even factor in Matsuzaka’s salary, which Boston brass and the pitcher’s agent, Scott Boras, have reportedly agreed will be a hefty $52 million over...
...problem with films like “Apocalypto” (and its forerunner, “The Passion of the Christ”) is that although they try to be serious, they invariably drown in the ‘aesthetics of violence’ and forget to explain the motivation or relevance for the violence...
...violence is “The Last King of Scotland,” a movie in which the depicted killings serve as a metaphor for the Ugandan genocide and thus magnify the atrociousness of Forest Whitaker’s magnetic and terrifying Idi Amin. But even when you forget that the film is about a historical tragedy, you still anxiously feel that everyone in the film is a piece of meat waiting to be hacked to pieces; when the butcher comes, it feels disturbingly right...
...They said, ‘This is an industry!’” See? Now the world is so much more wonderful and exciting because of the yelling. 4. Friendship. Everywhere Tommy goes, he makes friends. And lest we forget how important friendship can be, he reminds us that his friends are the friendliest friends that a friend ever befriended. Sure, he could open a column about China with “I met someone who told me an interesting anecdote about pollution”… but why do that when he can open with...