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...only person who knows what Bliss is up to is her best friend Pash (Alia Shawkat), who doesn't mind covering some of her shifts at the Oink Joint, either for the sake of the derby or Bliss's budding romance with a hipster boy from a band, Oliver (played by musician Landon Pigg). "It's a great name," Bliss sighs, her usual reserve shattered by Oliver's protruding hip bones and fervent attentions. "Yeah, if you like wayfaring Dickensian orphans," Pash says wryly. Her cynicism sets the tone for how we feel about the romance, and Barrymore's sweetly...
...Amreeka. The relationships between Bliss and both her parents in particular are nuanced and very vivid. In every scene Harden reminds us that she is, deservedly, an Oscar winner, and Page manages to transcend the dangerous trap of her Juno role and make Bliss very much her own person. When Harden and Page are together on screen, whether feuding or struggling to understand each other, we're riveted by the complicated and tender nature of their mother-daughter bond...
Extradition is the legal process by which one country returns a fugitive to another country where that person has been accused or convicted of a crime. It's often a lengthy and complicated procedure whose specifics are determined through treaties signed by individual governments. Generally, extraditions apply only crimes that exist in both countries, and to people hiding out in nations other than their own. (Governments almost never surrender their own citizens, hence Polaski's ability to evade arrest for over 30 years.) Political crimes are rarely extraditable because countries don't want to be accused of aiding a coup...
Predicting how fast a person will be jogging two years hence is tricky, especially when that person is currently flat on his back in a hospital's intensive-care unit...
...Afghanistan wear halter tops. The reputedly randy Prime Minister has promoted some of the more lovely young things - dubbed by Italians vitello, or veal - from his broadcasting empire into his Cabinet. He has deflected the political fallout from the nearly pornographic video of orgiastic parties at his villas. First-person accounts from prostitutes hired to entertain him, which would have a U.S. President in an impeachment scandal, are mere delicious newspaper morsels in Italy. (See the top 10 unsolved crimes...