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...anticipation sank with the opening credits: "Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood." That list spelled out the plot: damaged veteran, middle-age girlfriend, young daughter. The Wrestler never rose above fight-movie bromides, never dispelled my gloom. The character stereotyping makes Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa, by comparison, seem as swathed in moral ambiguity as Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers. The movie's serioso sentimentality is doubly strange since the script is by Robert Siegel, an ex-staffer of The Onion and co-writer of The Onion Movie. His old job was puncturing clichés; here...
...against soft lip. Both women froze. And then the kiss went on and deepened. Felicity’s hands slid from Roxanna’s shoulders down her creamy back. Roxanna’s fingers were still cradling Felicity’s face. With a sigh, Roxanna and Felicity sank downwards toward Roxanna’s bed. They landed with a slight thump that broke the contact of their lips. Felicity opened her eyes and drew back. Roxanna blinked at her, her rosebud lips parted.Felicity sprang off the bed. “You trollop!” she said between...
...Odetta and many other survivors of the civil rights movement, the election of Barack Obama as President signaled a fulfilling chapter in the struggle. As she sank toward death in New York City, Odetta had an Obama poster taped on the wall across from her bed. Hospitalized with kidney failure on Monday, she kept willing herself to live because, her manager Doug Yeager wrote on a fansite just before her death, "Odetta believes she is going to sing at Obama's Inauguration, and I believe that is the reason she is still alive...
...with bank stocks dropping more than 17% on average. Shares of Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America and Wachovia all fell more than 20%, largely erasing last week's financial-stock rally. Shares of oil companies fell sharply as well on Monday, as the price of crude sank to $49.28 per barrel, a decline of more than 9%. (See the Top 10 Wall Street Meltdowns...
...most of the game. And Wright, battling on the blocks all night, looked superb down the stretch, tallying 15 points despite being in constant foul trouble.On top of this, freshman swingman Peter Boehm came of the bench and stepped in to play the role of closer. Boehm sank two late threes in the middle of the second half to silence New Hampshire’s only attempt to get back in the game.“All our freshman played well,” Amaker said. “Boehm had some great shots, two big threes, [Wright...