Word: soule
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...simple bluesy opener, "Black Hearted Love," walks up to the edge of carnal desperation ("When you call out my name in rapture/I volunteer my soul for murder") but never quite cedes control. "Leaving California" is sweeter, and sounds it; built on quaintly out-of-tune acoustic guitars and twinkling piano, it's a credible country waltz. "Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen" grooves like Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" even as it tells a folktale of a doomed girl...
...Parliament is today here assembled to deal with this unfinished business of the nation, to remove a great stain from the nation's soul, and in a true spirit of reconciliaton to open a new chapter in the history of this great land, Australia." - Delivering a historic apology to Australia's Aborigines. (New York Times, February...
...with Nazi occupiers. The 2005 rioting that spread across France's suburban housing projects - and the international media attention that it drew - provided another reminder that something was seriously wrong in the land of fraternité et egalité. That unrest seems to have finally provoked a period of soul searching in France...
...That's the stranded soul that Hamburg, and his fellow writer Larry Levin, have put at the center of their movie. Rudd's character, real-estate agent Peter Klaven - rhymes with craven - is a nice guy, engaged to a nice girl, played by Rashida Jones. No problem... until, as he approaches his wedding day, he realizes with a spiraling horror that he has no male friends. (Apparently he went to an all-girls' college, if there are any left.) He's not a man's man, a guy's guy, he's a woman's man, and the suggestion...
...rated farce structure and strictures: it's got fart jokes, a couple of fist fights and a scene of turbo-puke of an intensity not seen since Linda Blair went all demonic in The Exorcist. Its agenda is that Peter can't be a man until he has a soul-dude. But this is essentially a comedy of social embarrassment; the laughs come at the expense of Rudd and any male who squeamishly sees some of himself in Peter. Rudd's performance is an acutely off-key symphony of lame rejoinders, wildly inappropriate ethnic accents and pathetic attempts at bonhomie...