Word: janes
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...Washington-based nonprofit Environmental Working Group, which has conducted research on particulate pollution from automobiles, printers release the same type of fine particles that cars do. "What we need are standards up front so that the pollution we're subjected to don't pose health risks," says Jane Houlihan, the nonprofit's vice president for research. "Printers are just one of the many things we're exposed to during the day that are potentially harmful...
...Blowup, he changed Hollywood history. The movie was produced by Carlo Ponti and was to be distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the stately old lion of American film studios. But the industry ratings board wouldn't give the picture a seal because, during a photo-shoot romp, the model Jane Birkin allowed the briefest display of pubic hair. Instead of trimming the scene to the board's specifications, MGM honored Antonioni's version of the film, invented a subsidiary, Premier Productions, and sent Blowup out under that logo. The film was a surprise hit and ushered...
...that most of her major novels have at least once been made into movies, you'd think they'd give Jane Austen some time off for good behavior. Instead, we have Becoming Jane, which plays like an Austen adaptation, but is in fact a biopic with an asterisk. That is to say, there is some scant evidence that the young, would-be novelist (Anne Hathaway) had a flirtation with an impecunious Irish lawyer named Tom LeFroy (James McAvoy) that came to a lot less than this movie rather melodramatically makes it out to be. Call it, perhaps, a fantasy based...
...Becoming Jane, which is directed by Julian Jarrold, one gets the sense of the actors wearing costumes without actually living in them, of them walking about in settings they don't seem to fully inhabit. They feel plunked down in alien surroundings, and a lot of the time I felt the unseen spirit of the art director, proud of having found the perfect old churchyard or country house. Put it simply: The movie approximates antique reality, but it never sweeps us heedlessly into that reality...
...That's particularly true of Anne Hathaway, playing Jane. She is extraordinarily attractive, which the historical Jane was not, and does lot of scribbling. But Hathaway never makes us think the woman could write anything more complex than a diet book. The real novelist must have been, even at the tender age she is supposed to be in this film, a much more ferocious creature, determined to make her way as a writer, certain that love - and it is said that she had other, perhaps more meaningful flirtations than this one - must prove a distraction from writing...