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Stranger Than Fiction has a surer aim at getting through the brain to the heart. Zack Helm's script imagines a decent, solitary fellow named Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), then springs the notion that he may well be a fiction--a character in a work in progress by reclusive novelist Karen (Kay) Eiffel (Emma Thompson). And when Kay figures out how to kill off the character, Harold will...
...quite, though. The movie is clever, but a little too pleased with its own clockwork intricacy. Director Marc Forster and a tony cast (Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah) hit every punch line with a gong, and Ferrell, who's quiet and fine, seems as lost among them as Harold is in his suddenly fictional world...
...military historian. "I'm telling a story," he says. But "I don't go beyond the facts." Digging like an archaeologist through mountains of material?histories, news reports, letters, diaries, photos?he picks out the details that bring the past, and the dead, to life. Brigadier-General Harold "Pompey" Elliott, a solicitor, describes men "going down before the machine guns like corn before the reaper ... I am sure there was some plan at the back of the attack but it is difficult to know what it was." Sergeant Archie Barwick, a farmer, writes of the German bombardment at Pozi?res...
Looking as boyish as a silver-haired 54-year-old can, Bob Corker admits in one of his latest television ads that he isn't "as good-looking" as his opponent Harold Ford Jr. For his part, Ford says in his own ad (with a grin) that if he owned a dog, Corker "would kick...
...Gets Nervous in Tennessee In the race for the Senate, Harold Ford wasn't supposed to have much appeal outside his home base of Memphis. But now that he is in a virtual dead heat with his Republican opponent, the race is getting down and dirty