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Winn-Dixie is a stray who also happens to be perfectly trained to sit, smile, whimper, and howl in harmony to church hymns on command. With the clichéd carefree curiosity of a dog, he proceeds to win the hearts of the townspeople and mend their relationships...
...drifted in a lovesick daze back to my room, where I sat down at my computer and tried to start writing. Something wasn’t working. How do you write a juicy exposé about a guy who once rescued a stray dog, used to secretly shovel snow out of his elderly neighbor’s driveway, and is genuinely interested in what everyone has to say? As his sister says, “Matt is one of the most real people you’ll ever meet,” and his commitment...
...colorless civil ceremony that will formalize their relationship approaches, one thing feels absolutely certain: there will be no more excitement from these two. They'll never stray or break another's heart. They'll never again be recorded while having phone sex - or if they are the transcript will not be published . They'll never mortify their parents again, embarrass their children, or shock their friends. And, of course, they'll never, ever divorce...
...limelight. That album title was a succinct statement of the band’s philosophy, but Riot on an Empty Street is no closer to riotous than the debut. The band’s two members, Erland Øye and Erik Glambek Bøe, have yet to stray formula that the first album’s name denoted, as opposed to the solo work of Øye, which ventures into laptop production and indie electronica. The balance of band members will surely be on show in concert: while Øye spends time touring his solo albums...
...problem is that the characters are nothing more than a writer’s conceits—for example the perversely obnoxious kids that bully Bobby at school, the kind of kids that only exist in bad movies. Consequently, their behavior never seems real. They are never allowed to stray too far from the idea of what they are supposed to be, whether that is workaholic dad, passive mom, bratty kids...