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...sports station!”—as well as the knowledge that if I ever returned home raving about Brady, Bruschi, Belichick or “my Pats,” I would have some pretty serious issues to address with my friends, not to mention my parents...
...Oscars are now almost a post-coital event in movie industry self-congratulation. In the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, there are just too many sciences. Amateur Oscar voters, at parties or in the office pool, are obliged to debate the merits, not to mention the meaning, of such categories as sound, editing and sound editing...
...aged Gurukant in an empty stadium recalling his stern father's lack of faith in him. "'Don't dream. Dreams never come true,' my father would say. But I dreamt." (This is a paraphrase of Dhirubhai's maxim, "Only when you dream it can you do it," not to mention The Rocky Horror Show's "Don't dream it, be it.") We flash back to Gurukant's youth in a Gujurat village, then follow the mogul's progress, with some Bollywood embellishments: his marriage to Sujatha (Rai) - at first for her $25,000 dowry, then for love - and his fraternal...
...scarred buildings near the Reichstag to the converted Wehrmacht communications headquarters in which my daughter's school is located - its tragic history is, at the same time, oddly invisible. Depictions of Adolf Hitler and Nazi symbols are mostly outlawed in Germany, and it remains something of a taboo to mention him in day-to-day conversation. So, it has been a bit of a shock in recent days to see posters plastered on subway walls advertising Mein Fuhrer, a new film about the German dictator. Even more jarring, the film is supposed to be a comedy. Hitler has been...
...hitch him to a suitable bride. Just as Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko detective novels stripped the cold war thriller of much of its ideological baggage, A Corpse in the Koryo is, in many ways, a street-level look at life in the Hermit Kingdom with nary a mention of mass games or nuclear weapons. "Anyone bold enough to try to discuss the North in nonjudgmental terms inevitably has felt the need to first establish a protective bubble of morally clean credentials [by uttering] something like, 'I think that North Korea is the worst regime on earth,'" Church says...