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...holiday comedy scripted by Dan Fogelman (one of the screenwriters of the Pixar movie Cars). Supporting Vaughn as the black sheep of the Claus clan and Paul Giamatti as Santa, the picture's got three Academy Award winners: Kathy Bates as their mother, Rachel Weisz as Fred's ill-used girlfriend and Kevin Spacey as a corporate type threatening to close down Santa's workshop. Giamatti and Miranda Richardson, who plays his wife, have been Oscar-nominated. Even Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, who has a bit as the North Pole's DJ, is a Grammy-winner. From pedigree alone, the movie...
...unambiguous evil as the movies have lately offered. And Brolin is his perfect foil. He's terrific as a totally twisted cop in American Gangster, but he's equally good as a totally innocent good ole boy here. All right, trying to make off with someone else's ill-gotten gains is maybe not entirely smart or entirely moral. But there's something pure and sweet about the young man, too, and a certain surprising shrewdness about him, too. He keeps managing to stay a lively, often imaginative, step ahead of his implacable pursuer until?...
...democratic “end of history,” Andelman’s history is a process that is often indelibly altered by the actions of a small number of individuals. Certainly, one of his criticisms of the Peace Conference at Versailles is that only a handful of ill-informed Ivy League intellectuals were entrusted with the task of redrawing the global map. But what makes Andelman’s account of the Peace Conference so enjoyable to read is his depiction of the players who take the field at Versailles. Each country’s concerns are embodied...
...Merkel and Sauer have worked out an arrangement in which "whenever he can make time, he will be with her," explains Alexander Freiherr von Fircks, former protocol adviser for the German Government. He says Sauer's reluctance to appear at public functions in Germany is not about gender or "ill will" - "Professor Sauer has a 14-hour workday; he just has a very tight schedule." Nor, however, adds Langguth, "does he want to carry her handbag...
...unlikely to generate the kind of media voltage produced by their Gallic counterparts, Nicolas and Cecilia Sarkozy, in New England over the summer. Madame Sarkozy, then on the verge of leaving her husband, turned down an invitation to a barbecue with the Bushes in Kennebunkport, Maine, claiming she was ill. Frau Merkel and Herr Sauer, by contrast, enjoy a more settled partnership, which is unlikely to offer the sort of fodder for speculation that the Sarkozys did. In marriage, as in transatlantic politics, the less news the better...