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...most depressing film of Jack Nicholson’s long career. His performance as a retired insurance executive is a deeply complex and hilariously tragic portrayal of the most banal aspects of one man’s post-mid-life crisis. Director Alexander Payne, famous for his digressions on suburban angst in films such as Election and Citizen Ruth, keeps the tone light and the characters archetypally and delicously bizarre. About Schmidt screens...
Both Berkeley, from suburban New Jersey, and Weinstein, a Cambridge native, have long known that music would be a part of their lives. One of Berkeley’s earliest memories is going for walks with his babysitter and singing for neighbors, who would in turn give him cookies...
...blacks and other ethnic groups. The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education is a landmark example of judicial activism, an activism that shaped the Court’s opinion in Roe v. Wade. A thorough understanding of urban and suburban housing patterns and education policy cannot be reached without considering the impact of race. Even American pop culture is influenced by Hip-Hop culture, which is in turn influenced by jazz, the blues and spirituals...
Benjamin Netanyahu bounced into the dirt lot outside another polling station in his armored Chevrolet Suburban. Israel's former Prime Minister climbed confidently out into a crowd of voters gathered in this blue-collar town hard by Tel Aviv's airport. A few began singing a Hasidic song: "Messiah, Messiah." In a stronghold of the Likud Party that Netanyahu used to head, that seemed no exaggeration. It is the hard-line nationalism of the Likud and its likely right-wing coalition partners that these people want, and Foreign Minister Netanyahu is the man they think best suited to sell...
...characters who surprise you. Kingpin knows its pop history: it often recalls Traffic and larcenously mimics The Godfather's conclusion, as Miguel's visit to a church is crosscut with scenes of his rivals being rubbed out. The Sopranos uses Mob cliches too, but it overlays them with a suburban family drama; Kingpin does nothing to improve on its Mob-movie forebears, nor does it have the subtlety or layers of The Sopranos. (These might be unfair comparisons if Kingpin didn't so showily invite them.) In typical network style, Kingpin's characters let you know precisely what they...