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...When Peet's Coffee and Tea opened its first Cambridge branch earlier this year, the California chain known for its strong coffee and anti-Starbucks attitude turned some influential heads at Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS...
...movie has no vision, no fine comic attitude about life, except that it is one damned thing after another, most of them bearing no relation to reality and having no function other than to keep the wheels of the farce heedlessly spinning. But it features a dental assistant (Amanda Peet) whose dream in life is to become a professional killer, the divinely materialistic Rosanna Arquette talking in a deeply goofy accent and a self-mocking supercool Willis. It also has a really good joke about throwing up. You're entitled to ask for more than that in a comedy...
...remaining signatures are needed. Jimmy on the other hand is an unwilling captive to these larger affairs, especially more so when he is used as a pawn by Gogolak and hitman Frankie Figs (Michael Clarke Duncan) and subsequently falls in love with Cynthia. Throw in bouncy and naked Amanda Peet from the WB's "Jack and Jill" and Rosanna Arquette as Perry's homocidal and snivling wife and you get a complicated plot fraught with misunderstandings and double-dealing...
...other hand, the women are a real joy in the movie. While not exactly plumbing emotional depths, Natasha Henstridge moves past her Species movies by giving a classic femme fatale treatment of Cynthia (although the viewer is left to wonder why the seduced ends up being Matthew Perry). Amanda Peet too leaves some dubious other film appearances and fills the movie with much needed younger vitality (although the viewer is left too to wonder why the seduced ends up being the much older Bruce Willis). Finally, Rosanna Arquette is masterful in her portrayal of an evil, French-Canadian wife...
...October. Last week, as rains drenched Brazil, the price dropped a bit. Still, supermarket brands like Folgers and Maxwell House, which cut the price of a 13-oz. can by a dime in August, are jacking it up by 30[cents]. For the moment, gourmet beans at Starbucks or Peet's are staying the same...