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...There, within the same up-tempo pop format with which he’s now become with a bit too comfortable, Leo managed to compassionately address the struggles of those with eating disorders while producing a still-engaging sound. Leo’s twee-like melodies now seem stale, and serve as deterrents to new listeners he hasn’t yet won over. Songs like “Colleen” are inescapable on the new album. Boringly poppy, they are plagued by lyrics like, “Colleen / Never to be crowned queen / Never an evergreen / Floating above...
...muzzled, rather than endure the beeping alert for yet another new text message. But I'm betting that Twitter will get a lot noisier before netizens move on to the next new thing. Why? Because Twitter targets the same crowd that digs MySpace and, frankly, that site is getting stale. We cyberjunkies need a new thrill, and what better than a service that combines social networking, blogging and texting? Dozens of other companies are trying to do the same thing with services like VelvetPuffin and Google's Dodgeball. But only Twitter has figured out how to make it easy...
...rude. Everyone has his or her own style of working. Clint Eastwood is one of my role models in that regard and I don't think he does it for any reason other than impatience and the belief that after five or six takes of a scene it gets stale. In my experience, actors do their best work earlier in the process than in the 30th or 40th take. It just came out that way and I'm not throwing it in any filmmaker's face, either. That's just the way I work...
...theatricality in the dying days of male monopoly on the English stage. This story is more conventional, rather like “American Beauty” meets “Blackboard Jungle,” but Eyre succeeds in keeping the film engaging where it could have felt stale. “Notes on a Scandal” is up for four Oscars—Dench for Best Actress, Blanchett for Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Score, and Best Adapted Screenplay. As good as Dench’s performance is, her odds of winning are anemic, given that Helen Mirren...
...trend?The themes of “Arlington Park”—dreams and ambitions stripped away by domesticity, spirits and personalities quailed by marriage, energy suppressed and freedom thwarted by maternity—are trite contemporary fodder. But to give her credit, Cusk redeems these stale themes with exquisite language and is on aesthetic high ground, safe from criticism of low-brow unoriginality.Cusk’s words are so lovely that they make the tongue itch; it’s hard to resist the temptation to read all 248 pages out loud. The lush descriptions...