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...transforms his flawed character into a sympathetic one. Jill Hennessy also offers a thoughtful performance, teasing out complications of motherhood and dignity. However, unlike Baldwin and Hennessy, Roberts is the exception to the rule. A relative newcomer to the big screen, her performance is stilted, insincere, and self-conscious. Fortunately, the other actors pick up her slack to convey the film’s grit and realism.It is certainly a daunting task for any director—let alone a first-time director—to reframe suburbia. In “Lymelife,” Derick Martini not only...
...summarily withdrawing from the NPT is not a far stretch of the imagination, nor is continued covert nuclear development in violation of negotiated treaties. Moreover, today’s “peaceful, power-generating purposes” is easily replaced with tomorrow’s “self-defense” as a reason for nuclear development once Iran succeeds in developing a nuclear weapon...
...myth of the life-changing summer—those three languid months between the end of childhood and the first steps into real life, a series of long days without parents or school to live wildly, fall in love, and find one’s true self. June, July, August: enough time to take a walk on the wild side, turn around, and walk back.In “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh,” written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (“Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story”) and loosely based on Michael Chabon?...
...money around the village in an empty whiskey bottle, noted that she thought she looked like “a garage” when she first saw herself on television. The audience and judges in live attendance that day, at least at first, seemed to agree with her self-appraisal. They jeered at the middle-aged Scottish cat lady, audibly laughing when she said that she dreamed of becoming the next Elaine Page, the woman widely known to be the “First Lady of British Musical Theater.” One could think of her performance...
...students' aid packages throughout the year. For instance, Rod Frantz, who works in marketing and public relations in Washington, applied for extra aid this spring for his son, Charles, who is a sophomore at Grinnell. Frantz had put a full-time marketing job on hold two years ago to self-finance a pet project. By the time he was ready to get back into marketing, the economy had tanked, and he says he has been searching "madly" for work these past few months as his savings and unemployment benefits are running out. Even though his wife is still working full...