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Earlier this year, the self-proclaimed “alternative department store” was in jeopardy of losing its crumbling, pink-brick home on 200 Broadway St. and being replaced with condominiums. A desirable piece of property lucratively plopped between MIT and a residential area, the Garment District plot had been eyed by developers as a prime location for expansion amid Cambridge’s booming real-estate market...
...Story 3 and other features in part by demanding that stories and characters drive the picture--not the visuals or bean counters. Catmull says creatives at Disney animation and Pixar will work more closely on story development too. At Pixar staff members hold councils in which they dissect plot lines and characters and share notes on one another's projects. Lasseter is expected to infuse more of that freewheeling style in Burbank...
...plot? Oh, never mind, except to note that it sidles up to the hero's birth and impromptu, painfully comic circumcision. What matters here is the casting of the two--sorry, six--leads. Steve Coogan, the Brit comic best known for incarnating Alan Partridge, a suavely unknowing TV host, plays four roles: Tristram, his father, Sterne and a put-upon egomaniac star named Steve Coogan. Rob Brydon, who has worked often with Coogan, plays Tristram's Uncle Toby and "Rob Brydon." Much of the film's grace and brass come from their comic kinship, as when they compare Pacino impressions...
...dialogue is time-filling conversation you might hear anywhere (but in a Hollywood movie). The film doesn't judge or prod its characters, just watches the long fuse of the plot dwindle, then explode. The "actors" bring an authenticity to this strip-mall, strip-mined area. Ashley is a student, Wilkins a beauty-salon stylist, and Doebereiner the manager of the Parkersburg, W.Va., Kentucky Fried Chicken. All are good, but Doebereiner's a real find. With eyes as blue as those her Martha presses into plastic doll faces, she brings a fresh look to a decent person who's addicted...
...wrote that he was blamed for the accident, which did much to stoke his dark-star mojo. The Smoking Gun found Frey's claim that he engaged in a melee with police officers in 1992 to have been fabricated. What is most disturbing, in a way (since a major plot point hangs thereon), is that the report questions the book's claim that Frey spent three months in an Ohio jail after rehab. The site even quotes Frey as having said in an interview, "I was in for a significantly shorter period of time than three months...