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...there is a payoff for sticking with all of them. With the book's end in sight, Byatt snatches the Wellwoods and their circle, who have been living in a kind of Midsummer Night's Dream - admittedly a delusional version, shot through with subplots involving abuse and incest - out of their fairy costumes and deposits them in the vermin-infested trenches and blood-soaked hospitals of World War I. In conveying the vicious indifference with which their lives are shattered, Byatt's penetrating, unsentimental style hits its mark. None of Olive's fairy tales could have foretold...
...been plenty apprehensive about director Spike Jonze's ages-in-the-making version of the 1963 Maurice Sendak classic, which is essentially a kid-size retelling of the Tarzan or Sheena-style fable about a white person becoming the monarch of a remote land. This was no sure-shot, cuddly animated feature but a spikier live-action fantasy - essentially an art-house fairy tale - whose special effects were, as co-screenwriter Dave Eggers, marvels, "just people in big suits." Think of the beasties as members of the Snuffleupagus family, with a Catskills tinge...
Both Foxx and Butler must grapple with some of the corniest writing in recent memory. Foxx spends most of the movie trying to seem authoritative and “sassy,” habitually dropping F-bombs just to make his intentions clear, and in one shot, coolly walking away from an explosion as if he deals with them on a daily basis in his law practice. Meanwhile, Butler makes a sad attempt at portraying a psychotic yet profound killer. When a cellmate asks him how he ended up in prison, Butler cryptically responds, “I did what...
...past year, Obama has changed the tenor of international diplomacy through his speeches and actions. The results have not been visibly shocking, but that does not mean his accomplishment should be dismissed. Major conflicts do not start when the first shot is fired; they start when the first harsh word is thrown and when antagonism builds at a local level between individuals. Obama’s repeatedly stated commitment to open-minded dialogue is preventing and mitigating grassroots antagonism around the world...
...with a bottle of soda, a CB radio and a BB gun, lifted off in the makeshift craft, dubbed Inspiration I. Airline pilots were stunned to see Walters float outside their windows, as the chair made it as high as 16,000 ft. (4,800 m) before Walters shot out some of the balloons. His descent was anything but graceful as the balloons struck power lines on the way down, blacking out a stretch of Long Beach homes. Still, Walters survived, enabling the FAA to slap him with a $4,000 fine for airspace violations during the stunt (later reduced...