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Writer-star Nia Vardalos’ follow-up to indie smash My Big Fat Greek Wedding treats gay transvestites with the same loving care she previously slathered over the Greeks: she reduces them to the sparest possible stereotypes in order to make as many “ain’t this wacky” jokes as is possible in this wildly mediocre rehash of Some Like It Hot. Like in that classic comedy, two performers witness mob violence and go on the run. This time the heroes find refuge on the gay circuit, where they pretend...
...with my tutor, thinking about the Luddites and about what I would smash, were I hefting an outsized sledgehammer named Enoch, the thesis process began to seem as ominous and inescapable as adulthood itself. It became the apple from the tree of knowledge that prefigures the expulsion from Paradise. (One of the advantages of a liberal-arts education is that it permits you to self-dramatize extravagantly...
Writer-star Nia Vardalos’ follow-up to indie smash My Big Fat Greek Wedding treats gay transvestites with the same loving care she previously slathered over the Greeks: she reduces them to the sparest possible stereotypes in order to make as many “ain’t this wacky” jokes as is possible in this wildly mediocre rehash of Some Like It Hot. Like in that classic comedy, two performers witness mob violence and go on the run. This time the heroes find refuge on the gay circuit, where they pretend...
...pure and simple," said a diplomat. And as the region knows too well, violence begets violence. In Serbia itself, drunken football fans and others vowing revenge on "Albanian terrorists" torched two mosques, including one from the 17th century that had miraculously survived the Bosnian war. Crowds moved on to smash the front windows at a local McDonald's. About 1,000 Kosovo Serbs have been evacuated to NATO bases inside Kosovo and another 2,600 driven from their homes. Camping out in a friend's apartment in the divided town of Mitrovica, medical student Ivan Radic, 30, a Kosovo Serb...
...Then last July, Howard walked onto a plane, sat for six hours and walked off it a different man. It wasn't that he had changed so much as that the world around him had: Howard had landed in England - a country in which football coaches get knighted, a smash TV drama is devoted to players' wives and each game is dissected like the evacuation of Dunkirk. "It's just enveloping," says Eddie Lewis, a U.S. midfielder who has played the last four years in England. "There's no way to escape the football. It's probably too much...