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...gift for baking exotically named pies ("Pregnant Miserable Self Pitying Loser" pie is one example), which bring her creative happiness and her customers culinary delirium. The rest of her life is, however, half-baked. She's married to a lout named Earl (Jeremy Sisto) who is a pure feminist nightmare - self-centered, exploitative, whiney and angry - and her waitress colleagues (played by Cheryl Hines and by Shelly herself) are desperately looking for love in all the wrong places. Jenna is trying to save money to make her escape. This plan is complicated by the fact that the awful Earl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adrienne Shelly's Last Offering | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...winner of the same award as “The Borrowers.” Part of why children’s literature is so appealing is that it retains elements that adult literature has lost. In children’s literature one is free to indulge in pure escapism to another world, whether it be in a wardrobe or an opium den in Bristol. The adult fixation on children’s literature is simultaneously nostalgia for the past and a desire to mold the future. And for some it’s just a good read...

Author: By Madeline K.B. Ross, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kiddie Lit Stays In Fashion | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...just as the song is an undeniably catchy fusion of pure pop-rap-bubblegum ridiculousness (the phrase “I’m gonna buy u a drank” has never sounded so smooth), the music video too achieves success. There’s one particularly memorable image where, as T-Pain sings “I got money in the bank,” money appears on-screen, dripping with liquor. No longer are money and dranks separate considerations; in T-Pain’s world, you have money-dranks. In the ultimate display of making...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: T-Pain ft. Yung Joc | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...also playing benefactor. Apart from hosting the Chinese Olympic football team in London in February, the club sponsors the Asian Football Confederation's Vision Asia project to develop grassroots leagues across China. Next summer, Chelsea will embark on its first-ever tour of China. Those preseason tours can be pure gold, giving sponsors the chance to exploit target markets. When Manchester United goes to Malaysia, Korea, Japan and China this summer, shirt sponsor AIG will be with the team every minute. That will go some way to repaying the $28 million a year the U.S. insurance behemoth agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Goal Rush | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...Valiant youths rusting [from] lack of employment" would flourish in America and produce goods and crops that would enrich their homeland. The notion was so prevalent that it inspired a blowhard character in the 1605 play Eastward Ho! to declare that all Virginia colonists had chamber pots of "pure gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamestown: Inventing America | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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