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Chabon is playing a double game here: he's a Pulitzer winner with the verbal chops of a mandarin writing in the voice of a junk-sick 1950s pulp hack who dreams of being a Pulitzer winner. He seems to find the masquerade liberating. For once he never has to stop the action or worry about the prose being too purple or not purple enough. Gentlemen contains only trace amounts of irony. Best of all--and this is good for Chabon, who, unlike Updike, has a sentimental streak--the characters feel emotions only when they want to, and never more...
...centers around Dan’s immediate attraction to a woman (Juliette Binoche of “Chocolat”), whom he meets in an otherwise abandoned bookstore. Following their intense and brief connection, Dan returns to the beach house—bragging about his encounter like a love-sick seventh grader—only to be introduced moments later to the mystery woman herself. She is actually dating his brother Mitch, a superficial aerobic instructor played by Dane Cook. Binoche’s character is forced to choose between the two opposites. Despite his general lack of acting credentials?...
...Merril was a good man and I was an immoral woman for criticizing my husband. [But] I had a right to complain about that kind of abuse. It just got to the point where I wasn't going to do it. I was sick of it. My dad warned Warren and said, 'my daughter has taken as much abuse as she's going to take.' He said, 'if you don't handle this problem and give her some protection, she's going to cause you some problems...
...named him Crackers, which in hindsight is an incredibly funny and racially charged name for a goldfish in a family of white Kentuckians. My mom called a veternarian specializing in fish when Crackers got “sick” (how do you know when a fish is sick?), who informed her that he specialized in more—ahem—rare varieties of sea creatures than church-carnival fish. Touché.The first time I ever saw my dad cry was when Zippy the cat died. The three of us drove him to the emergency animal hospital when...
...Novey ’11, who attended the event, praised Obama and Patrick because they came from a younger generation of politicians. “What’s good about both Barack and Deval is that they’re not baby boomers. I’m just sick of Vietnam,” Novey said. “In the last presidential election it was all about who served and who didn’t serve. I just want to move on and look to the future rather than past battles.” The rally...