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...into the book was Shridhar Chillal, who still holds the record for the longest fingernails, at a combined 6.15 meters. He told me he wanted to saw the nails off but would do so only if someone paid him $200,000. ("I haven't had a good night's sleep," he lamented, "since 1965.") When asked why they went to such extremes, their explanations were overpracticed, self-mythologizing, implausible. But the truth wasn't hard to discern. Inclusion in the Guinness book gave them prestige, hard to find in impoverished Indian towns. The book reflected a quirk in the mind...
...SOSKIN: I’ve read so much Ebert that I could predict his star ratings in my sleep. Any film with one of the following elements—good characters, an intriguing plot, or a noble message—gets at least two and a half stars, regardless of its other deficiencies; any film with two of the elements gets at least three and a half stars, even if it’s short on the third element (usually plot). Hence, poor Roger spends his days showering praise on dragging, decently acted message movies like Monster and The Insider...
...being imprisoned for a crime she committed, later following her across France to Bordeaux’s Hotel Splendide. A crop of rabid aristocrats have also gathered at the Splendide to escape the madhouse of Paris and badger the wait-staff nonstop for rooms—God forbid they sleep in their cars, with their suitcases and hatboxes! Serendipity and coincidences abound in Bon Voyage—but then everyone’s running around so frantically that it would be impossible for them not to bump into each other at the most opportune, or most inopportune, moments...
...these ships work, eat and sleep not only with their boots, but with their life-preservers on. They live from day to day, and count the minutes from sunrise until they can disappear again in the darkness. But even that darkness has not been concealing them from enemy periscopes, while they follow the coastwise routes. The glow from innumerable house and street lights can silhouette the outlines of a ship forty miles out to sea, and submarines work on a twenty-four hour shift...
...throw everything in your being at what you’re doing, knowing that on a Tuesday in November it’ll all end and you’ll be able to sleep the next day,” says O’Mary. “For us, the next day never came...