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...measure, her big brother is one of the best defensemen in the ECAC. An All-Rookie team selection last season, he has a vicious slap shot, mean streak, and rough-and-tumble 5’11, 210-pound build. He’s also a team captain in only his second collegiate season...
...this medium, an "ensemble" piece typically means a bunch of spandex-clad steroid cases teaming up to pound some evil genius with their fists. It can therefore be quite a shock to read a comic about four adult friends who struggle with issues of career, relationships and sobriety. At last, something I can relate to! The second and third issues of Henrik Rehr's "Tuesday" (Kim-Rehr Productions; 24 pp; $2.95), with its group portrait of New York sophisticates, reads like the movie Woody Allen hasn't made in years...
...plays his wife, Nadi, have both won acclaim and Oscar nods for their performances, some critics panned the film's tragic Shakespearean ending. ("Smacks of overreach," complained the Chicago Tribune.) But Kingsley puts the film in league with ancient dramatic traditions that used less plausible, more hyperbolic plotlines to pound home a point. "The Greeks embraced tragic drama," he says. "We are a society dedicated to the outlawing of tragedy, and we outlaw it at our peril." (He's exaggerating a bit - this year's other Oscar contenders include fine modern tragedies like Clint Eastwood's melancholy Mystic River.) Movies...
While Ma and Otal poked fun at Downey’s past roles, ranging from his first movie role in Pound to his work in the little-seen film Rented Lips, the Pudding members avoided mentioning his past drug convictions, a subject which has been much lampooned on late-night...
...American public worries that the moon initiative puts too much strain on the national budget, and the American public may be right. With the moon weighing in at 162 sexillion pounds, and Appenzeller selling for $14.99 a pound, buying the moon at Cardullo’s would set the US back $2.4 septillion. Outrageous, the prices in the Square these days...