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...comes the requisite paragraph where I say I'm not really qualified to comment on either the series or the movie because I'm (a) male and (b) straight. And yet, having both those infirmities, I also feel estranged at times from Judd Apatow films. I have the anachronistic notion that romantic comedies needn't be exclusively partial to one gender; they should be critical and loving and true to both. So I'll soldier on with my mixed, distant, defiantly ignorant review of this 142-minute trifle - which comes close to being the longest non-musical romantic comedy...
...camera and the audience are kinder to aging male stars than females.) But their characters are youngish, at least in their minds. Like a lot of us, they refuse to grow up or old; they need to stay fit and sexy, to sustain a satiny, early-20s robustness straight into senility. And whether Carrie and her friends are heroic or delusional, they aren't the only ones. Last night The Daily Show played a news clip of a talking head discussing John McCain's medical records and, noting that he seemed in good health, proclaimed that...
Whoever says money can't buy happiness hasn't shelled out for their own beach in Cambodia. Before the crew of the Sea Breeze can even drop her anchor, Alexis de Suremain is in the water, swimming straight for 90 yards of white sand: his 90 yards of white sand. A wall of tangled jungle rises to the east; to the west, the sun sinks into its own reflection over the Gulf of Thailand. "See that?" de Suremain asks, waving at the sun as it bisects the beach view. "Right down the middle...
John McCain knows how to win small. No other candidate in memory has done it better. Give him a microphone, a chartered bus and some Purell, and he can take down a state with raw hustle and personality - a few corny jokes, some "straight talk" and his own heroic tale. When he wrapped up the G.O.P. nomination in March, his campaign employed just 90 people. It was a bit like the Bad News Bears winning the National League pennant...
...been an unsinkable Labour bastion since World War II. The sheer size of the victory - 17.6% of the electorate switched from Labour to Tory since the last election in 2005 - was sufficient cause to pass over the policy missteps and campaign gaffes that contributed to the debacle and go straight to the jugular concern of British politics these days: how long can Gordon Brown survive...