Word: suburbanitis
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...avoiding, the guilt over the bloody way in which he's consolidated his power; daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) is at Columbia University, across the river; Anthony Jr. (Robert Iler) is running with a bad crowd; and Carmela - long-cheated-on Carmela - is sublimating her feelings like a good suburban housewife, through tennis lessons. (We also follow the Sopranos' Polish maid, one of a growing cast of peripheral East Europeans - Polish domestics, Russian strippers, Czech mobsters - who provide a modern-day connection to the Italian Americans' immigrant past...
Today there are 10 presidential libraries, not counting the still disputed Nixon papers, which are housed in a suburban Washington warehouse, and Clinton's planned facility. But the library is now just part of a former President's operation. Attached to the libraries are privately funded museums and foundations. These have become minor tourist attractions (presidential libraries combined get some 2 million visitors annually) and, in some cases, major employment programs for the ex-Presidents' pals. Because the presidency keeps getting bigger, so do the libraries. Gerald Ford's library has more documents than F.D.R.'s. No wonder Presidents leave...
...Before Eminem came on to rap with Elton John, a grave man dressed like an adult - the Grammys' ambassador to Bennett-Leiberman Nation - delivered a dishonest sermonette filled with those "sure-it's-ugly-but-we-ignore-the-cry-of-the-ghetto (er, make that, of suburban white sociopaths)-at-our-peril" notes that are spoken to endow venality with social significance...
...Glimmer brothers are old-time jazzmen, long estranged. Martin (John Spencer) has kept faith with the music--and with self-destruction. Daniel (Nicolas Surovy) has settled for suburban prosperity and forgetfulness. Shine (Jonathan Silverman), the son of a man who played with them, effects a reconciliation while pursuing Daniel's daughter (Alexa Fischer). Leight won a Tony for Side Man, also about musical lives. This play, now at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, is slicker, more manipulative. It is saved by Spencer (of TV's West Wing), whose towering rage at the dying light is awesome and hilarious...
...Replace with: The Virgin Suicides Sofia Coppola's underrated directorial debut is a gleaming golden fairy tale of its own, complete with sleeping beauties, prince charming and indefatigable optimism. Kirsten Dunst is lovely as a rebellious daughter in a suffocatingly close-knit suburban family...