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Plenty, as it turns out. Zoolander, which opens this week in Europe, is very funny, very entertaining. Stiller, who co-wrote it, directed it and stars in it, manages to appeal to fashion insiders and civilians alike. The reason is not the plot. A mere description of it is enough to put anyone off: a cabal of fashion designers including Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Paul Gaultier and, strangely, American Vogue editor Anna Wintour look-alikes, has been brainwashing male models to commit all the major assassinations in the last 100 years and they want Derek Zoolander to take down their next...
...Reporting the humanitarian crisis in Northern Afghanistan, I have been begged by fathers to take their children, angrily led by the hand by a husband to see his wife lying unconscious from malnutrition, and, again and again, asked to explain why the aid isn't coming. On Monday the mere sight of my health reduced a 75-year-old man to tears. My translator and I have found we can only stay for an hour or so in a refugee camp before the crowd becomes hysterical with need. In every visit, there comes a point when it becomes too dangerous...
...much as all these works anticipated the changes that would come after Sept. 11, in a way Sept. 11 changed them too. Band of Brothers debuted on Sept. 9. Two days and 5,000 lives later, its tag line about ordinary people in extraordinary times was no longer a mere historical reference. On its release, the jacket art of The Corrections--a clean-cut family sitting at a holiday table laden with turkey, cranberry-jelly slices and radish rosettes--seemed like a Lynchian dig at Norman Rockwell Americana. Today the image just seems, well, nice. And before Sept...
...sets fall into two categories: too comprehensive or not comprehensive enough. Count this four-disc companion to the PBS music documentary among the latter. Sixty-eight tracks is plenty for an individual act but a mere freshman introduction to American roots music. With limited breadth, the curatorial choices are critical. There's not a false step on the Country and Blues discs, with room for both the obvious (B.B. King, Hank Williams) and the exuberantly obscure (Whistler's Jug Band?). But while the Cajun, Tejano and Native American selections are individually clever, their close proximity emphasizes similarity rather than...
...freshmen. Harvard’s solid net minding came from freshman Dov Grumet-Morris, who started his first two collegiate games. His steady presence in goal combined with the level headed calm exhibited by freshman defenseman Noah Welch in netting Friday’s game-tying goal with a mere 40 ticks hanging on the clock enabled the Crimson to take away four points from a trying weekend...