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...more engaging storytelling.The movie suffers at times from other shortcomings, but they aren’t significant enough to displace its much more noticeable successes. Devereaux’s sons—George, who narrates the film, and Robbie—are underdeveloped as characters. They toss out stock adolescent protests like “You don’t even know me” from time to time, but their main role is on their mother’s coattails. The plot itself is supposed to be at least loosely based on the childhood of perennially bronzed Hollywood...
What's clear is that the future is uncharted. In past economic downturns the luxury end of the market was largely unscathed as high-income shoppers tended to be less affected by the ebbs and flows of the economy and more impacted by stock market fluctuations...
...that changed when the stock market collapsed, housing prices plummeted, and credit markets seized up. Not surprisingly, many recent converts to luxury shopping quickly reversed course and went downscale. But what caught retailers off guard was that long-time luxury shoppers grew more frugal, too. The widely publicized bailout of Bear Stearns, the takeout of cash-strapped Merrill Lynch, the government rescue of American International Group, the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the meltdown in the credit markets - all served to rattle the upscale crowd, as many work in the financial industry. Fashionable free-spenders morphed into penny savers...
...Thirteen,” “Juno”—generally center on adolescence, a morass of complexities that tends to subsume any secondary themes. Once they graduate high school, women tend to disappear from the screen in any meaningful way entirely, fading away as stock types, or arm candy, or background characters...
...seminal moment of the financial crisis—the stimulus plan was being drafted just as the stock market headed for record lows. Within a week, Stein had passed his spring teaching duties to Visiting Professor Owen A. Lamont and was on his way south after nine years at Harvard...