Word: norah
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Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin By Norah Vincent Viking; 304 pages...
...Norah’s Infinite Playlist.” Two misunderstood teens fall in love over a series of break-up mixes and a passion for the indie-est of fictional indie bands, Where’s Fluffy? At one point, while scrolling through Nick’s iPod, Norah proclaims, “We are musical soulmates.”In a streak of wild coincidence, they are also regular soulmates. They are shy, defensive, insecure soulmates who never would have met had a screenwriter not thrown them together. Why? It was easier for her to listen...
...makes her dozens of mix CDs with heart-rending titles such as—in one of the film’s best and most subtle jokes—“Road to Closure, Volume 12.” One of Tris’s best friends, Norah (Kat Dennings), has fallen in love with Nick’s mix CDs, despite never having met their maker. While attending a show by Nick’s band, The Jerk Offs, Norah, feeling lonely, grabs the nearest guy and tells Tris it’s her boyfriend (even though...
Much of Nick & Norah was shot on the Lower East Side, a grimy area that Sollett polishes into a wonderland where parking spaces are always available and the street people are genial poets. He has also enlisted stalwarts from Saturday Night Live (Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg) and the Harold & Kumar movies (John Cho). But this film doesn't need the validation of older comics; it's got winning stars in their early 20s who are true both to this moment and to old star quality. In the 1930s, Hollywood had The Thin Man, with the married couple Nick and Nora...
...wouldn't be smitten by Norah? As incarnated by Dennings, who has come of age nicely since playing Catherine Keener's daughter in The 40 Year-Old Virgin three years ago, she has the poise of a privileged child - getting hit on by guys is just an occupational hazard - and is cocooned in her persona. So she's a good match for Nick, who is beyond being embarrassed by driving a battered yellow Yugo that strangers mistake for a taxi or carrying Handi Wipes in his pocket. They also like the same music, which can unite the most disparate souls...