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...love with her rather quickly. Academy Award nominated actress Lynn Redgrave is underused as Robert's affable and quirky mother, and Neil Patrick Harris (the currently star of NBC's "Stark Raving Mad") pops up occasionally to console Robert as a fellow gay man. Sam, played by newcomer Malcolm Stumpf at age six, is born and grows ups in a matter of seconds. In fact, each little character episode speeds through the film, providing transitions before quickly returning to the center of attention: Madonna and Everett sparring, making up, or simply conversing. It is as if the audience has secretly...
...maybe something he was? This is the kind of thing that Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer for the New Yorker, thinks about in The Tipping Point (Little, Brown; 279 pages; $24.95), a somersaulting exercise in social theory that tries to explain how ideas and trends are spread. Like germs, is Gladwell's answer. Hush Puppies and Big Bird, hypodermics and Republicanism--every notion and product can catch on in ways that resemble medical contagions. The most explosive are set off when very effective carriers spread very potent strains in very conducive settings. And in these social outbursts, Gladwell tells...
...verse he lays down over hip-hop, tribal and bebop grooves. His words are as deeply rooted in African-American culture as the beats that back them; the verse explores Sundiata's own experiences as a native son of Harlem, as well as the stories of black icons like Malcolm X, John Coltrane and Nelson Mandela. In addition to his frequent readings around New York City and his musical theater work (most notably 1994's The Mystery of Love), Sundiata works a day job teaching literature at the New School for Social Research. Among his first students was indie rock...
...played by a white man in brown face. In Short Circuit, Fisher Stevens added the needed laughs by yukking it up as an Indian with an accent so heavy that even the Indians in the audience couldn't understand him. Over time, it only got worse. Imagine if Malcolm X in Spike Lee's epic was played by a white man--that's how I felt when Ben Kingsley was given the highly coveted role of Gandhi (even though I was four years old). Even more egregious was the dreadful manipulation of races in 1997's A Perfect Murder...
Clearly, Grandma has lost her monopoly on knitting. The acrylic monstrosities of yesterday are being replaced by chunky runway knockoffs. Both Valentino and Christian Dior have emphasized knitwear in their collections. "Every major fashion magazine of the moment is screaming, 'Knits are big!'" says Trisha Malcolm, editor in chief of both Vogue Knitting and Family Circle Knitting...