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...Ahmadinejad's speech. Ramadan Shallah, leader of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad, mounted the podium and thanked the Islamic Republic for its support of the Palestinians, then left the stage. Ahmadinejad boarded an army helicopter, waving down from its window. Other helicopters flew overhead and showered the crowds with glitter-confetti, and people began streaming away from Freedom Square. The revolution was now officially 30 years...
...have, quite simply, turned The Day the Earth Stood Still on its head and what's falling out of its pockets in that upended state is a stream of junk. It does not have the charm of what little boys sometimes carry around with them, but rather the nasty glitter of inept box office calculation. I suppose that doesn't make a lot of difference - the tradition of stupid remakes is a long and undistinguished one. But some of us do have good movie memories and strong affection for the indelible impressions left on us by the populist triumphs...
...middle school I watched TRL religiously, falling in lust with Lance Bass and experimenting with eye glitter in the bathroom mirror. Today, ‘N Sync is dissolved, Lance Bass is gay, and TRL silently ran its last episode while I sat in my room pretending to work on my thesis. I feel a certain degree of guilt about letting my last chance to watch the show slip by, not because I was waiting with bated breath to see who was number one, but because I cannot imagine my 13-year-old self feeling anything but shame...
That's probably less a judgment on TV's personalities than a sign of its times. A fragmented media may simply be past the era of Russerts and Cronkites. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. As the glitter of the long-planned electionpalooza settled to earth, there remained a disastrous econ0my, energy and climate crises and far-flung wars. And understanding them will take more than big stars and Jedi effects...
...despair, outrage, and panic for her son. Were Jolie an actress of lesser talent, “Changeling” might not be more than a slideshow of extreme human emotions. Nevertheless, close-ups of Jolie manage to make us feel what we ought to feel. In the glitter of her huge doe eyes we recognize the docility of a character who, at first, is neither radical nor rebel. When Carol Dexter (Amy Ryan), a prostitute imprisoned in the same mental asylum, tells Christine, “I had two abortions by back-alley doctors. I didn?...