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...time for new pics. Too busy accepting new friends. To save the world. It's the only thing that can, so please use it wisely." Although I have no idea what she meant, I liked the Gravel spirit. Sam Brownback's spokesman wrote back: "New pics, you say? Hmmm ... ok. I think we will. Hope you feel special when we put up a new default picture! ;)" This was the kind of friend I wanted. Someone I could influence...
...running on battery power that was about to give out. The five big stars can't shake the movie's infectious lethargy, and some of the others, like Mac and Cheadle, have so little to do that it's a wonder they showed up (though Gould and Reiner are OK, and Eddie Izzard squeezes some life into his cameo as an amiable criminal super-brain...
...statement made by John McCain to reporters - "No, we did not hire anyone who was in this country illegally, and we made sure we didn't. And you might go back to my opponent's camp and [tell them] we've moved. We now live in a condominium, OK? Duh." - that was incorrectly attributed to Mitt Romney. The statement has been omitted from the story...
...Moore also likes to play Santa Claus. One child, who had been approved for one but not two cochlear implants when she started losing her hearing, received an OK for the second implant from CIGNA after her father waved the red flag of Moore's interest in the case. The filmmaker also sent $12,000 anonymously (well, not any more; it's in the movie) to a Moore-hating blogger who was going to shut down his site to pay for his wife's hospital bills. Most photogenically, Moore brought his 9/11 boat people to Cuba...
...OK, it's a pretty bad film. But I loved every minute of it. Why? Because Grabsky is generous with his performance footage; operas, symphonies, concertos, chamber works tumble forth, giving us a sense of the composer's fecundity, tireless ambition and quite modern need to make a living when the traditional patronage system was beginning to falter. "Genius leaks out the around the edges," says the conductor Roger Norrington, "while he's doing something totally practical." In other words there is a serenity, a wit, an economy in this work that belies the haste and occasional desperation...