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Given that setup, you imagine--quite correctly--that good old-fashioned suburban adultery is the long-fused time bomb waiting to explode in Little Children. But before you give your been-there-done-that shrug, and well before Brad and Sarah get it on, director and co-writer Todd Field establishes some very nontraditional premises, both stylistic and emotional, that give his film--based on a novel by Tom Perrotta, who collaborated on the screenplay--a creepy, hypnotic edge...
...Just hearing the setup of this crime-movie storyline has audiences jittery with anticipation. It's rare that a plot gets people into theaters, but this one already has, and will again. Four years ago it was the scenario for Infernal Affairs, a terrific Hong Kong movie directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, and written by Mak and Felix Chong, which became one of the all-time top grossers in the ex-colony. Now it has been remade by Martin Scorsese and screenwriter William Monahan as The Departed. Chances are that, with Leonardo DiCaprio as the good cop, Matt...
...subplot that keeps viewers returning, however, is Lonelyboy43's fraught friendship with "Condi," his female best friend who organizes the show's technical setup (currently a poorly shot, jerry-rigged affair, as the show has a reported yearly budget deficit of $296 billion). The two are inseparable, and Lonelyboy43 seems to speak more highly of Condi than of his significant other, the bookish, rarely-glimpsed "Laura," yet he seems paralyzed and unable to, as one fan exhorts, "make a move already, willya?" Several websites have sprung up solely to dissect Lonelyboy43 and Condi's relationship, with online polls indicating that...
Most important, the Pearl is a model of consumer-friendly design. RIM says it's one of the smallest smart phones, and it's thinner than most dumb phones too. Our tests revealed surprisingly long battery life and surprisingly easy e-mail setup as well. We installed AIM, Gmail and Yahoo! and could view all incoming mail simultaneously or by account...
...limp at the moment because she fell down the stairs in her house. At a segment at Sterling Vineyards in Napa Valley, Calif., in which she and Puck choose wine for the Oscars' Governors Ball, she made sure to loudly announce during a tasting that "it looks like the setup for one of those chicks who play glasses with their fingers." During the daily snack time on her talk show, she walks out and personally serves her audience food, and unlike many TV hosts, she makes it feel as though she's chatting instead of lecturing. She is the most...