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Patrick Creadon's fizzy documentary uses interviews, tournament lore and some very cunning graphics to capture all the obsessive excitement of word love. The movie screen is a box too, and this film is as smart and funny as its topic and its stars. Release date: June...
...each year (Harvard costs nearly the same) to ensure they develop the easy confidence, posh accent and useful contacts that will guarantee access to the top of British society. At least among many metropolitan commentators, that fed an anti?private school, anti-Eton mood for years. A lot of smart money during the Tory leadership contest in 2005 discounted 39-year-old David Cameron simply because he was an Old Etonian. He had to fight the image: "It's not where you come from but where you are going that counts," he said, as if he had had to escape...
...million. Money by itself won't be enough to bridge the social chasm that keeps many boys from hearing about Eton or thinking they could possibly fit in there. Only two or three enter each year from state schools. An existing program to identify and help needy but smart 10-year-olds to give them private schooling before entry is aimed at only five boys per year. It often doesn't get that many. Nevertheless, more money is the essential first step to broadening the base of the student body. Little says many alumni he has sounded out are enthusiastic...
...Wordplay is every bit as smart as the Times puzzles, puzzlemakers and puzzle solvers. Creadon is a master of the suave segue-as when Okrent observes that "Using Reagle on Tuesday is like using Barry Bonds in Little League," and the film cuts to a clip of Bonds getting struck out by Mussina, leading to the star pitcher's segment...
...celebrity solvers attack the puzzle, the box of the movie screen is divided into sections, highlighting the clues and the spaces for their answers. Like we said, smart people on both sides of the camera. The one thing the movie doesn't reveal is why so many of these renowned puzzlers - Clinton, Stewart and Burns - are left-handed. Coincidence? Or conspiracy? We solicit an explanation from our Mensa-worthy readers...