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Mass. Congressman Michael E. Capuano formally announced his bid for the vacant Senate seat of the late Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 at the Omni Parker Hotel in Boston last Friday...
...Michael [Capuano] has a sustained, principled irreverence, and I cannot think of anything the United States Senate needs more at this time,” said Frank...
Professor Michael J. Sandel is apparently becoming quite the media darling. Tomorrow, his lectures will be broadcast on public television for all the world to see. As of today, this week’s episode is already available on his snazzy new website. And last Thursday, he made an appearance on the Today Show—for all of four minutes—to discuss his new book, Justice: What’s the Right Thing...
...sufficient Hollywood screenwriter. Her soft-touch sister Joy (Shirley Henderson) keeps getting visits from dead boyfriends (including ex-Pee-wee Herman Paul Reubens). And Trish (Alison Janney), whose convicted pedophile husband (Ciaran Hinds) is about to be released from jail, has found a new beau, the solid, stolid Harvey (Michael Lerner), whose touch makes her "feel wet, all over." That doesn't please Trish's son Billy (Dylan Riley Snyder), who's also troubled to learn that his father is still alive. "I just wanted you to grow up free and happy," Mom explains, "as if he were dead." Well...
...pace. He doesn't push your face into the message of conspicuous consumerism; he lets the characters and actors breathe, allows viewers to detect the toxic undertaste in their own good time. In its amiable, ambling way, The Joneses is a zeitgeist film: it says as much as a Michael Moore screed about the American way of debt. It's also a feature-long joke about Hollywood's mania for product placement...