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...totally immobilized by a stroke, beat out the German spy drama The Lives of Others? (Three out of five critics groups say yes.) If you're getting restless, movie lovers, too bad. You'll be hearing the same obscure names at the Golden Globes and on Oscar night...
...bestselling novel “Atonement” for film adaptation: The story can resume—even if the change in medium makes it lose some of its power. The film stays close to the novel that inspired it, as in Wright’s last film adaptation, Oscar-nominated 2005 movie “Pride and Prejudice.” In “Atonement,” screenwriter Christopher Hampton works by exclusion, keeping most of the dialogue and nearly all of plot points the same. The expert casting and skilled performances, particularly by James McAvoy...
...that this is, alas, a work of fiction. Nobel laureate Doris Lessing’s name is megalomaniacally scrawled in regal yellow in the center of the cover, leaving little room for the actual title of the book. Over-compensating for something, Doris? The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz Nothing says “good, interesting read” like the red silhouette of a man’s head with a bird’s wing emerging from the back, red ink dripping eerily from its base. If Wao’s life...
...time Oscar winner will bring glitz and glamour to Harvard when he opens his latest film during a black-tie premiere at the Carpenter Center on Dec. 18, the Harvard Foundation announced yesterday...
...decades is not the video’s only advantage. Instead of rapping, Snoop sings through a talkbox and ends up sounding a bit like Akon. It can only be assumed that Snoop Dogg began his obsession with the ’70s after his Oscar-worthy turn as Huggy Bear in the 2004 classic “Starsky and Hutch.” Regardless of its origins, “Sensual Seduction” is a silly and hilarious video that makes me nostalgic for a decade I never even lived...