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...begin to fear the light that you know will come streaming in the window far too soon. You lie in bed, alternately staring at the ceiling and the insides of your eyelids, trying to remember what someone once told you when you had trouble sleeping as a child, to pretend that you are lying on a raft on the ocean or that you are floating on a cloud. You start thinking about balancing on a cloud and what clouds are made of and whether one could support your weight, and you don't remember much from physics, but at least...
...profundity and likens it to Generation X: it lacked a defining moment. But behind each member of this week's event plurality lurks quite a good history. Here's a cinema trifecta of great movies that will make you smarter to boot. Watch and learn, and on Monday pretend you read it all in the Wall Street Journal...
That said, I must caution against expecting too much. Raises won't be anywhere near the 30% threshold being doled out (again) to millionaire thirtysomething bankers and brokers. That's Wall Street. We at least pretend to live in the real world...
...film picks up 10 years later, as Anastasia, now 18-year-old "Anya," struggles to find her identity. She eventually runs into Dimitri, a former palace servant-turned-leading man, who is looking for someone to pretend to be the princess so that he can reap a reward from Anastasia's surviving grandmother. Amidst all this, Anastasia must deal with her amnesia (which seems a strange perversion of repressed memory syndrome) and with the pesky Rasputin who rises from Hell in order to destroy the last heir of the Romanovs...
...late-night show down under for three years, starting in 1990. He had the Letterman repertoire down pat, introduc-ing bits with the same tongue-in-cheek flourish ("I have in my left hand... "). Staff members would even prep American guests on the show by telling them, "Just pretend you're on the Letterman show." Though critics hooted at the thievery, most Aussie viewers didn't get the references--until 1994, when the real Letterman show started airing in Australia. By then Vizard was safely...