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Martin Amis is, and has been for several decades now, one of the world's greatest living novelists, and the fact that he attracts some of the world's worst reviews only makes him more interesting. A relentlessly intelligent, funny, and kind writer, he's endlessly interested in stupid, humorless...
In romantic comedy, something has to (temporarily) dam up or divert the course of true love. The trouble is that by this time, most of the easily persuasive bars to happiness - class, marital status, and inattention bordering on sheet nuttiness - are either inoperable or used up. So give a certain...
She's ferociously, therefore funnily played in Because I Said So by Diane Keaton, who is unaccountably concerned with one of her three daughters' lack of romantic prospects, which is, come to think of it, rather odd. Milly is played by Mandy Moore, who is sensible, pretty, gainfully employed as...
Romantic comedy does not require elaborate explanations of human behavior; the genre needs only to provide an efficient resolution of some silly situation that none of the characters - if only they thought it through for a minute or rationally talked it over - should be in. It is nice, of course...
Brought up on a property near Forbes in central western New South Wales, Stewart left school to study social work in Sydney, where he discovered ballet at the relatively late age of 19. His professional trajectory began with two years at the Australian Ballet School, but the seeds had been...