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...Unnamed isn't a grim novel, exactly, but it's grim-ish. Only rarely does Ferris show the nice touch with a comic digression that he gave free rein to in Then We Came to the End. (Though there is a one-off about a man named Lev with a sexual fetish involving exotic snakes, which I choose to accept as an hommage à moi.) It's as if Ferris is testing his range to make sure the bass end is there as well as the comic treble. It's present and accounted for and suitably rich and profound...
Guys and Dolls, adapted and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, was based on the hit Broadway show about a Salvation Army lass liberated from propriety by demon rum and the attentions of a sharp gambler. As Sergeant Sarah Brown, Simmons begins with a virginal haughtiness, compromised only slightly by her nervous habit of unbuttoning the middle button on her army jacket. Then, on a night in Havana with Brando's Sky Masterson (he's made a $1,000 bet he can take her there), she's the innocent blossoming into sexual joy. That emotional unbuttoning is something the actress...
...million in six weeks; Carey Mulligan's An Education, $8.3 million in 16; Woody Harrelson's The Messenger, just $744,200 after 11 weeks in limited release; and Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer's The Last Station, $230,700, second week, limited. All that free publicity, all those talk-show appearances, and barely $20 million worth of tickets among the five. (See the best movies...
...lack of computerized coordination of sales data among remote bookstores means that publishers rely heavily on newspaper best-seller lists and, perhaps more importantly, on feedback from bookstore owners to divine what kind of book the Indian reader want. There is no equivalent to Oprah Winfrey - whose television show has been launching best-sellers in the U.S. for years - so boosting sales still requires a personal touch. Authors looking to increase their numbers are compelled to visit bookstores large and small to talk up their book. This word-of-mouth method among booksellers still reigns supreme in India. "They...
...often happens with this court, the case at hand became the occasion for a clash of worldviews. (For Justices Anthony Kennedy and John Paul Stevens, the dueling authors of the main opinions, these clashes have become so predictable and so dramatized, they should think about starting a cable-TV show.) "The right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it," trumpeted Kennedy. Stevens responded, "The court's ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the nation...