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...skirt pretending to be pregnant. The teen-aged brother has embraced strict religious orthodoxy and keeps interrupting the smooth flow of social events on this Sabbath evening by taping over the light switches and hiding everyone's cell phones; there is to be no electronic interference with true belief. Grandpa is a blind veteran of various Israeli wars and keeps a loaded gun handy in case the enemy decides to storm their apartment. Mom (the divine Norma Aleandro) desperately pretends that everyone is normal, and Dad is simply AWOL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schickel on Movies: An Israeli-Palestinian farce. Really | 6/16/2006 | See Source »

...again) unaccountably hailed by the critics. I'll buy Zoe Wanamaker as the strong-willed matriarch, but the overrated Mark Ruffalo is simply grating as the gigolo next door, and the estimable Ben Gazzara doesn't seem to have the energy to make much out of the Marxist grandpa. But expect to see at least some of them onstage on Tony night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Broadway Shows to Miss | 5/15/2006 | See Source »

...there?s any doubt, remember the eyewitness account of Jason Bissey who lives next door to the house where the Duke party occurred: "One guy yelled at her, ?... Thank your grandpa for my cotton shirt?" - a cleverly subtle racist jab from one of America?s best-educated college students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Discomfort | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...morning of your holiday and remember that you haven't sent any postcards to the folks back home. Unfortunately, the offerings in the souvenir shops don't quite capture the majestic beaches and quaint villages you've enjoyed over the past two weeks. Either they're too bawdy for Grandpa or they feature the talent-free scrawlings of a local artist. You can't help but think, "I wish I could make my own postcards." It turns out you can, if you have access to a camera phone. To send a custom-made postcard, simply snap a picture with your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcards with an Edge | 4/17/2006 | See Source »

...available on any network anywhere in the world, and will cost you $4.50 a postcard, plus normal network charges. There's only one drawback: if you want to write a long message of more than around 100 words, you'll have to use text speak. Here's hoping Grandpa understands, "Lvly fud, wsh u wr ere." mobycards.com

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcards with an Edge | 4/11/2006 | See Source »

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