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...named Jessica greets most students hurrying down Plympton Street towards the Yard. On sunny days Jessica often lays quietly on the steps of the Grolier Poetry Shop. It was from these steps that, years ago, a 15 year-old Louisa Solano first peered into the store, and was struck by the unshakable feeling that someday she would own the place...
...pretty obvious if you’ve ever seen a movie with a guy and a girl, each are aided by a Funny Best Friend. Beckinsale drags along Eve (Molly Shannon, late of “Saturday Night Live”) and Cusack enlists Dean (Jeremy Piven, who struck a nice chemistry with Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank). Both provide solid support, though I wish that they existed as more than just sounding boards/agents to further the plot, given that they are the only other characters with substantial screen time in this sparsely-populated film...
...lineage evokes memories of music’s halcyon days where songs were not a product nor a soundtrack for a car commercial, but rather signified subversion and an affront to the establishment. Arguably, that time never existed and the Strokes are simply a cleverly marketed band that have struck a chord with music critics disaffected with the cookie-cutter teen sensations and the eviscerating rap-rock fusion. Still, responsibility for the promotional hyperbole lies not on the shoulders of the Strokes, but on those sensationalizing publications who feed the hype machine and want to be first the break...
When America's armed forces struck back at terrorism Sunday afternoon, I was courageously defending our nation against terrorism by scrubbing the floors of my Army Reserve unit in Queens, New York City. (I'd been late on Saturday.) It was listless work - most of the boot-marks were waxed in long ago. Mainly I was trying not to get powdered bleach on my new combat boots...
Then disaster struck...