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...Josh C. Phillips ’07’s burnt out heroin-addict Fick is both hilarious and sad. Scottie Thompson’s Ann, a dragon-lady salt-of-the earth working girl, is also excellent: when the second act opens to Ann smoking a cigarette in quiet café, her back to a bear yellow wall, her bearing is that of a woman in a (racey) Hopper painting. More surreally, there is also a chorus (Tony L. Chin-Quee ’05, Alexandra S. Miller ’07, and Amy C. Stebbins...
...Bush camp struck first, shipping in the President's father, an old friend of Dispatch publisher John Wolfe's, for a quiet breakfast during the Democratic Convention in July. A long line of other White House allies, including Karl Rove, Ken Mehlman, Treasury Secretary John Snow and Budget Director Josh Bolten, has also marched through the Dispatch's Third Street offices. Last month the President even invited Wolfe and Dispatch president Mike Curtin, along with a reporter, on Air Force One to discuss the issues...
...about a failed writer and a C-list actor who go on a weeklong wine-tasting bachelor party through the vineyards near Santa Barbara. Paul Giamatti plays the novelist, who is deeply in love with wine and deeply in hatred with the rest of the world. It's a quiet, sad, beautiful story about how ego obstructs work and love. And it contains the best joke about Merlot in cinema history--along with the funniest beating-with-a-motorcycle-helmet scene, as performed by Payne's wife Sandra...
...Office's comedy of quiet desperation will probably need tweaking for America, where we prefer noisier desperation in our workplace satire. (A sublime example of that style is the movie Office Space, from Daniels' Hill co-producer Mike Judge.) But The Office finale isn't a downer; it offers the characters some hope and a chance at redemption--even David. At one point he shows up at Wernham Hogg, asking his ex-employees to go out for a drink--begging, really--in the mistaken belief that they love him. Only Tim accepts, to break the awkwardness--but also, perhaps, because...
...Qaeda is no longer able to mount synchronized spectacular events. In fact, fears of a pre-election attack have eased as an all-out push by law-enforcement and intelligence officers has failed to detect any trace of a terrorist cell operating in the U.S. "It's about as quiet as it can possibly be," says a top counterterrorism official. But he and others remain watchful. It was eerily calm before 9/11 too. Dayton's press secretary says the Senator has had "no second thoughts" about the closing. --By Elaine Shannon