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...marvelously intertwined an interesting blend of philosophy, biology and sociology, and it left a true message of hope. I think, however, that morality is not the only thing that separates us humans from other animals. We also have the unique ability to reason and make inferences. Yuri F. Malina, Aix-En-Provence, France...
Jelinek, 57, swims in controversy. Her novels (Women as Lovers) and film scripts (Malina) are searingly personal and political. She writes plays scourging Austria's far-right Freedom Party and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Jelinek was little-known abroad until now; in one day, sales of her novel The Piano Teacher jumped a million slots on Amazon.com into the top 10. That's one Jelinek story with a happy ending. --By Richard Corliss
...most kids, though, the odds of a scholarship are long. Robert Malina, director of the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports at Michigan State University, says most parents would be better off putting the money they spend on travel teams into a savings account. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, fewer than 1% of the kids participating in organized sports today will qualify for any sort of college athletic scholarship...
...also has some problems. Krause and Charles play the two quick-witted, sports-obsessed pals very plausibly, but so far their characters have been hard to get to know. Huffman is so convincingly over-stressed that she's almost off-putting. The most appealing cast member is Joshua Malina as a brainiac associate producer. But his role sometimes turns sappy, and the show's general earnestness results in speeches that are cliched and moral dilemmas that feel contrived...
...butcher's wife. Aside from the fact that she looks like a man in a bad wig, she struggles to conceal her cockney accent and is inexpressive at best. Lili Taylor as Teresa tries too hard to convey a lowly monastic plainness, ending up as flat as Ullman. Judith Malina plays the matriarch Carmela as charmingly as an unfed pit-bull...