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JENNIFER ANISTON is married to Brad Pitt. She's a TV star. Her minor car accident last week (she was unhurt after being side-ended) made news around the nation. So it may be hard to picture her as a small-town store clerk. But that is her role in the film Good Girl, which debuted at Sundance last week and was picked up for $4 million by Fox. The studio wants audiences to expect a darkly comic tone. Says marketing chief Nancy Utley: "They shouldn't be tricked into thinking it's Friends: The Movie." Fans of Joey...
...will have little left to pine for once they're actually old. The 1994 movie Reality Bites noted Gen X's penchant for instant nostalgia with its recent college grads singing Schoolhouse Rock ditties. This premature sentimentality might explain why That '70s Show, Fox's sweetly frothy sitcom about small-town teens, is a hit among viewers who, in the Carter era, were wearing pj's with footies. (Its median audience age is 31; its characters would be in their early 40s now.) That in turn explains why, last summer, Fox asked the '70s creative team to do the same...
...with his ex-wife's obnoxious boyfriend. He has lost parental control of his bright but troubled teenage daughter. Why doesn't he pack up and start somewhere new? In answering that question, Richard Russo's richly textured novel not only offers an enthralling and sometimes scary portrait of small-town life but also reveals a dignity, unexpected yet totally convincing, in its beleaguered hero...
...with his ex-wife's obnoxious boyfriend. He has lost parental control of his bright but troubled teenage daughter. Why doesn't he pack up and start somewhere new? In answering that question, Richard Russo's richly textured novel not only offers an enthralling and sometimes scary portrait of small-town life but also reveals a dignity, unexpected yet totally convincing, in its beleaguered hero...
...movie has a couple of things going for it. One is the precedent of last year's much lauded You Can Count on Me, also about dark currents running through small-town life. The other is that In the Bedroom boasts a terrific comeback performance in a pivotal role by Marisa Tomei...