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...world. Caviezel's Six simply materializes. His past comes to him, and us, in a series of disorienting flashbacks (or are they?) of life in Manhattan that act as a parallel plot. He faintly recognizes people he meets from elsewhere, but they don't recall it; they don't know what New York is or recognize names like Darwin and Plato. The official belief is that there is no outside world: "There is only the Village." (The few who believe rumors of "another place" come to a bad end.) Are Six's memories even real? Is the Village...
Whatever you make of the psychology of happiness, we know something of its physics. It rises as it ricochets off other people, returning to us stronger by virtue of being released. It gets bigger when we don't care if it gets smaller; we stopped buying all the stuff we didn't need that was supposed to make us happier, and we seem to be happier for it. And who would have expected that...
...pretty much taken care of that with the title alone. His suspenseful blameography reads like a thriller, even though we already know how things turned out. The Sellout traces the arc of Wall Street's ultimate blowup, from the risk-taking free-for-all that began in the late 1970s through the emergence of complex mortgage-backed securities (which Gasparino labels a "financial cancer") to angry laid-off Lehman Brothers employees packing up their desks a year...
Friday night it was Jimmy Kimmel's turn to host the young stars of The Twilight Saga: New Moon: Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan), Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black) and Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen, as if you didn't know). The audible rapture of the studio audience, in large part female, stirred Kimmel to that now-familiar remark, "Not since the Beatles..." The crowd swooned when Pattinson, asked if he'd been injured doing any of the movie's stunts, acknowledged, "I strained one of my ass-cheeks." When the ladies had a chance to ask questions, the ones directed...
...Services Task Force (or USPSTF, the same group that revised its mammography screening advice) - had advised girls to begin yearly Pap tests within three years of their first sexual encounter or, regardless of their sexual activity, by the time they reach 21. (Read "Mammogram Guidelines: What You Need to Know...