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...included a letter to all of the people who bought a car from the dealer being closed saying that they would get a year of free oil changes at the dealer staying open in the next town. There might even have been an apology for doing something which, under normal circumstances would never have been done...
...modesty, patience, perseverance, proficiency. We crave the company of ordinary heroes, especially now, when we're all on our own, thankful for small distractions from all the big threats we face. It's a karaoke moment: we can't afford a band, but we'll gladly sing of normal nobility all night long...
...nicely. Lambert, 27, may have the best chops of the bunch (his ability to hold high notes recalls Grace Slick in her prime), but where he really outshines them is in self-awareness. While his peers act as if being plucked from obscurity to sing in prime time is normal, he understands that he's on a television show, where acting normally would be completely abnormal. In his hands, a song and a performance are separate messaging opportunities, so "Born to Be Wild" becomes a rock anthem and show tune, "Ring of Fire" a love song verging on the orgiastic...
...Saturday. "I just want to be treated like everyone else, and going around and screaming I am gay isn't going to help me." Says Sergei, who is married to a woman but advertises for liaisons with men on gay dating sites: "Being gay is just not considered normal like in the West. In Russia there are just no good [gay] role models. No normal people who happen to be gay." (See pictures of Moscow...
...first half of Antichrist has enough storytelling vigor and sheen convince any critic, including those who thought von Trier went off the rails with his Dogville and Manderlay epics, that, hey, the guy can make a normal movie, and with the highest skill. There are visions here worth savoring, pure von Trier weirdo-magic, like the sight of Gainsbourg lying on the forest ground, willing herself to blend with the green. Through simple grace notes - photos from the previous summer of the boy's shoes put on the wrong feet, and, in one of several allusions to The Shining...