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...Pride and Glory Directed by Gavin O'Connor. Written by Joe Carnahan and O'Connor, from a story by O'Connor, Gregory O'Connor and Robert Hopes. With Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich, Jennifer Ehle. From...
...Ought to be, but isn't. That the movie proves to be a nonevent has something to do with the clichés accruing around the cop genre (where the killer is always a cop), and more to do with the passing of time. Director Jon Avnet - who's done some decent work (The War) but was also responsible for this year's lamentable 88 Minutes, also starring Pacino - gives the new movie the grimy New York look and a generic intensity. Yet this is a film that missed its moment. Instead of the meeting of maestros...
...Jon Ronson, a British guy who wrote a book called The Men Who Stare at Goats, which George Clooney is making into a movie. He's a documentarian, but a really good writer, too. There's a sportswriter called Michael McCambridge who wrote a really great history of the NFL called America's Game. I'd never heard of him till recently. I like Seth Mnookin, who wrote Hard News, a history of the New York Times [during the Jayson Blair...
...then he no longer has anything to prove. "Al's his own guy," says Heckman. "You can hear traces of Jon Hendricks in his scatting, some Joe Williams in his blues, some of Ray Charles' phrasing. But the unique timbre of his voice almost inevitably makes him sound unique." That kind of stature will help his forthcoming Christmas album - carols are the kind of thing that, let's face it, only an artist of real untouchability can pull off. It should also ensure a warm welcome for a new "best of" collection, out early next year. "I'm picking...
...think anybody expected the news media to just sit there and accept the Norman Rockwell painting. That's not our job.' JON KLEIN, CNN president, disputing the McCain campaign's claim that Brown's questions were "over the line." McCain later canceled an interview with CNN's Larry King in protest...