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Movies used to sail on charm. Gorgeous stars would purr their smooth patter, smile their way out of embarrassing entanglements and seal their conquest of a co-star--and a worldwide audience--with a kiss. Today that sounds So Old, but it was the standard for a half-century. Once in a while a director makes a movie that tries to recapture that warm feeling. It's harder than it looks, as a couple of new films prove...
...Girl's Guide to Being a Boss (Without Being a Bitch) (Morgan Road), by marketing professionals Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio. As the title trumpets, the B-word is the dreaded description to have hurled at you in anger. In an amusing chick-lit, women's magazine patter (the boss is the "chick-in-charge"), the authors counsel being your authentic, feminine self. "Were our mothers and grandmothers fighting for us to go to college and get jobs we enjoy so we could be forced into sensible shoes and rayon business suits? We hope not." Says co-author Friedman...
...Siewers, assistant professor of medieval literature at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. But Tolkien was a linguist and a historian who derived much inspiration for his novels from medieval sagas. "Hurin is a very serious book," says Wheaton College's Drout. "It doesn't have any of that lighthearted patter between the hobbits. It's going to show this man was a much more nuanced and complex and deep-thinking writer than he's been given credit for." And fans who think Tolkien was not just a great storyteller but also a great stylist are similarly excited about Hurin. They...
Later she told jail doctors that nothing could mute the patter that said she was a lousy mother. The death of her children, she said, was her punishment, not theirs. It was, she explained, a mother's final act of mercy. Did not the Bible say it would be better for a person to be flung into the sea with a stone tied to his neck than cause little ones to stumble? And she had failed her children. Only her execution would rescue her from the evil inside her--a state-sanctioned exorcism in which George W. Bush, the former...
...actually surprised that the Madonna audience was as young as it was - mostly people in their 20s and 30s. And I wouldn't call the concert laid-back. Programmed within an inch of its life, is more like it. The choreography, the elaborate video presentations, even Madonna's patter - there's almost no sense any more of an artist interacting spontaneously with the audience. Even the way the concert ends - her big hit "Hung Up," blackout, lights go up, goodbye! Not even an encore. Sure, encores have gotten to be as programmed as anything else, but at least there...