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...edge of womanhood. Her blue coat with red piping and mismatched buttons becomes a symbol of unconventionality, as little girls go trick-or-treating in lower-budget versions of it. McAvoy is a wonderful leading man and Catherine O’Hara is perfect as an overbearing mom. Another actor, Simon Woods, pops off the screen as Edward, an utterly repulsive upper-class twit. Ricci does a terrific job looking cute—in fact, too cute. First-time director Mark Palansky played it safe with the nose: instead of misshapen, Penelope looks lovable. This makes scenes of would...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Penelope | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

Whatever it is they offer--buzz, cool, a psychological boost--Clinton needed it. So it was unsurprising, if a little weird, to see her staffers injecting SNL into their talking points the following Monday. See, Mom? TV criticism is a real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary's SNL Strategy | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...very timely in a lot of ways for me. It's no coincidence that I wanted it published during an election year. Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American. And that really was the impetus for Change of Heart for me. As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the sytem, or is it because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Prison with Jodi Picoult | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...things can exist concurrently and hopefully play off of each other. THC: Is there a reason for your ability to create such interesting female characters?AT: One aspect of it is just my experience growing up. For big chunks of my childhood I was being raised by a single mom who was working and putting herself through school. I think also one of the inspirations I had was a comic book called “Love and Rockets” by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez. They were the first guys to get compliments in terms of female characters. I immersed...

Author: By Kerry A. Goodenow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tomine Gets Serious About Comic Art | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...York in England. But on a recent Saturday morning in their sunny Barcelona apartment, they have a more modest ambition: to get some medicine into their 2 year-old son, Maties, who's been running a fever since the previous night. Domenech holds the twisting, crying toddler, as his mom manages to pour the syrup down the hatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Family Matters | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

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