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...differs from the book in that it centers on the relationships of nine individuals rather than random cases or scenarios. The all-star cast members take on uncharacteristic roles and do better than expected. The typically nerdy Long is convincing as a wise and charming dating guru; Scarlett Johansson deftly handles her comedic moments just as well as her seductive ones; and the dynamic between Jennifer Aniston and Ben Affleck—a couple who’ve cohabitated for seven years—is more believable than we see in most comedies. The characters are all loosely connected...
...being renovated into chilly modernity, Janine (Jennifer Connelly, an Oscar winner, in case you forgot) thumbs through issues of Dwell magazine and worries that her husband Ben (Bradley Cooper) is sneaking cigarettes. Ben's smoking should be the least of Janine's worries, given his flirtation with Anna (Scarlett Johansson), the world's most jiggly yoga instructor. The smarmy Ben and the self-involved Anna utterly deserve each other. What does the wan Janine deserve? For starters, a large portion of Baltimore's finest crab cakes; this formerly lush beauty appears to have been living exclusively on wallpaper paste during...
...June 26, 1959, Sweden's Ingemar Johansson, who died on Jan. 30 at age 76, stunned the boxing world by knocking out heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson. Patterson's four title defenses before he met Johansson had been against fighters who, at best, weren't even household names in their own households. And Johansson, a European heavyweight champion, was believed to be but another in that line, even though he had a 21-0 record with 13 knockouts...
...Johansson, thought to have so little chance that he was a 4-1 underdog, unsheathed his vaunted right hand--which he called his "toonder and lightning"--in the third round, driving Patterson to the floor. Six more times he made Patterson one with the canvas, becoming the first non-American in 25 years to hold the heavyweight championship...
Over the next two years, they stepped into the ring twice more, with Patterson winning both times by KO. For his part, Johansson would go on to have--and win--five more fights, regaining the European heavyweight championship before retiring in 1963 with a record...