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...like a party as much as the next guy, but I think this inauguration business is a little overdone. It all smacks of a most un-republican longing for some kind of Princess Diana-ish royal spectacle...
...heart-melting romance with guy talk for the fellas and a mellow alt-rock sound track, [this series] fits the 30-ish heterosexual-couple demographic like a comfy pair of Dockers. Maybe too much so: funny but safe, it's TV's answer to the date movie...
...kind of a quiet and understated guy, not usually given to displays of affection or emotion. When he does smile, it feels wonderful and safe. Unfortunately, Leo, played by Mark Wahlberg, has few reasons to be happy in James Gray's newest feature, The Yards. A dark, noir-ish story set against the intrigues of New York City's subway car suppliers, The Yards is Gray's second major film, and it will only add to his reputation as an intelligent filmmaker. The cast of Gray's first major film, Little Odessa, included Vanessa Redgrave. This time around...
...Memory of Water, Shelagh Stevenson's new-ish play about three sisters coping with their mother's death after a prolonged bout with Alzheimer's Disease, is jam-packed with struggling marriages, pent-up familial resentment, abortive relationships and shadows of the deceased. Quite a comedy. At least the British thought so; nine months ago, after enjoying a popular run at London's Vaudeville Theatre, Memory won the 2000 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. What prompted this quirky and very British comedy to take a hope across the pond to fair Harvard's somewhat-less-fair Loeb Experimental...
...Thursday's selling didn't have the resolute quality of the day before - it was a halting affair all morning and seemed to be sputtering by lunch. The 3200 (OK, 3100-ish) mark is still a tech milestone investors take quite seriously, probably more so if it holds up this week. Chipmakers, PC makers, software makers, portals - they've all gotten a comeuppance in the last month or so, and this week it looks like fiber optics/networking, the "infrastructure" companies of the Internet, is getting its fair share...