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Despite a discography stretching back almost a decade, the band played only one song from an album other than “Boxer” or 2005’s rhythmically dour “Alligator.” While their decision not to play older favorites may seem strange, it makes sense given the pattern of The National’s rise to popularity. It took months for “Alligator” to gain full appreciation (a “grower,” everyone called it), and the fan-base has slowly expanded again since...
...original movie, directed by Hollywood veteran Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Andrew was played by Laurence Olivier, widely considered the century's greatest actor; and Michael Caine, who came to movie fame as the charming cad Alfie, was Milo. In a promising symmetry, this Sleuth has Caine playing the older man and Jude Law, who starred in a 2004 sequel to Alfie, as his young rival...
...blunt objects on display, and a gun does go off, but the play is basically two men talking, firing elaborate insults at each other, scheming to find the perfect humiliation for slights received, the most elegant revenge. All this was catnip for the original film's director. Mankiewicz (whose older brother Herman wrote Citizen Kane) had been in movies since the early days of talking pictures, and "talkies" is a good description of his very voluble films. His Oscar-winning scripts for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve were filled, stocked, clogged with clever badinage. Nearly...
...never set foot in a school and spoke no English; but others gave him paints and told him to make murals to communicate. One day he was beating up the other third-graders, since that was what he knew how to do. And soon he was beating up older kids on behalf of his peers. "That gave me a position," he says, "some social standing...
...Band of Horses again abandons this path with “Detlef Schrempf,” aiming for something similar to their older sound. Bridwell ditches the accent and the song relies on creative, melancholy guitar lines; instead of another ballad, we finally get a more characteristic indie lullaby...