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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is a market that someone should have gotten into a long time ago. As one of the guys behind the Yankees Suck empire said yesterday, "There's a lot of Yankee-haters out there." And never more than this weekend, as the Sox and Yanks met at Fenway Park in the postseason for the first time ever. (I'm not even going to attempt to describe the intensity of the rivalry here. If you're curious, wear a Red Sox hat into Yankee Stadium sometime and find out for yourself...
...further. The narrator of this dark satire is a sophisticated, self-aware photographer who, at 40, meets the perfect man: a charming, wealthy novelist. Shortly after their marriage, though, she finds he has turned into an oaf, banging around the house like a bull, routinely inflicting accidental injury. He never comes into focus, but the anger he arouses in his wife is all too clear...
After spending the last days of his vacation at a campsite in northern England, the narrator plans to travel to India. First, though, he agrees to paint a fence for the campground owner in exchange for free rent. The traveler, who never merits a name, really must get going, but the tasks keep piling up. Before long, he's rebuilding a jetty, doing homework for the owner's daughter, playing on the local pub's dart team and running the town's milk route. In this creepy, deadpan novel by a nominee for Britain's Booker Prize, nothing much happens...
...19th century Alexis de Tocqueville journeyed to America and thought he had the young nation figured out. But Tocqueville never tried out for a porno film. In this documentary series, English-raised Louis Theroux (son of novelist Paul) samples the strangest fruits of freedom, from pitching infomercials to breaking bread with right-wing survivalists. This sort of participational filmmaking can become cute or self-satisfied, but Theroux maintains a curious, never smug attitude, even toward the most bizarre colonists...
...enough to make you forget the sales pitch. And the characters are so alive that if someone asks you, "Isn't Toy Story 2 a computer-generated cartoon?" you may say, "You know, I never noticed. I was too busy having a great time...