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...neighbors, and a hard-hearted local girl named Fanny. The flashbacks focus on the moments that young Max (Freddie Highmore) spent at his Uncle Henry’s house. Finney captures all the subtleties of the character, and plays Uncle Henry loveably. Also remarkable is Archie Panjabi, who plays Max??s secretary, Gemma. Panjabi takes the sexy-secretary stock character to a new level by keeping the business in the office, but still showing the potential for a relationship that can exist between a secretary and her boss. The various love stories are also well-structured and integrated...
...Frontman David Berman is, first and foremost, a poet, and songs like “Dallas” and “Trains Across the Sea” were heart-wrenching and earnest to the point of goosebumps.Even a line like “I love you to the max?? was total, front-on honest, and the shockingly tight musicianship drove all that honesty like an old-timey steam-train to our hearts.Lyrics are the also the stock-and-trade of the third superstar on our list: John Darnielle, aka The Mountain Goats. His set was perfect. Fans...
...There are some interesting influences hiding beneath the surface of Hard-Fi’s sound. Their broad sonic palette boasts a wide variety of electronic sounds, and some of the album’s most interesting moments occur when Hard-Fi tries to sound more Daft Punk than Max??mo Park. But even that doesn’t always work, giving the music the unwelcome sweaty sensation of being trapped in a trashy European dischotheque. What’s most tragic about the release is that it finally gets good with the last track, “Stars...
...from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Duke Law School (two facts he mentions frequently), but decided to make a living blacking out, juicing women, and recounting his adventures on the Internet. “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell,” Max??s new book, is a collection of Max??s most infamous Decameron-like stories alongside some newer material. A perusal of the new book reveals that this same man once left a 20-foot trail of diarrhea in the lobby of a Texas Embassy Suites, got kicked...
...short pages before he introduces the main event that shapes the rest of the novel. At the conclusion of the first segment, Max is brutally murdered at the steps of India’s apartment building. Just as soon as it is revealed that the murderer is Max??s Kashmiri chauffeur, the enigmatic title character, the narrative dives into a distant past inexorably linked to the present.The second segment, entitled “Boonyi,” details the budding romance between Noman Sher Noman, also known as Shalimar, and Boonyi Kaur, his future wife and India?...