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...feel as if I've betrayed my disappointment with The Heartbreak Kid by making it sound vaguely amusing. The movie has its moments, like Lila's ring tone (the Wicked Witch broomstick theme from The Wizard of Oz), and Corddry's exasperated description of his secret for a happy marriage ("Sit back, relax and wait for the sweet embrace of death"). I also appreciated Eddie's flailing argument for dumping his bride for another woman. "The heart wants what it wants," he says, quoting Woody Allen's remark to Walter Isaacson of TIME during the 1992 scandal involving the filmmaker...
...current capitalist moment. “The pressure to be 24/7 hot is very intense and very stressful,” she says. “There is a premium for perfection and no one is perfect.” Even though feminism isn’t an explicit theme of “Learning to Drive,” Pollitt defends the word. “If you ask a non-feminist what they stand for, it will turn out that they believe all the things a feminist believes in. And yet, this word has been successfully demonized...
...that theme - the possibility of dramatic transformation through artifice - struck a personal chord. At 18, he entered the Art Academy of Taiwan as an acting student, and found himself changed from a shy, uncertain teen into a star. Only after moving to the U.S. in 1978 did he switch to directing. His English, he realized, wasn't good enough for him to succeed in America as an actor...
...crowd" - even though none of the other major candidates has been tainted by scandal - and touting his conservative bona fides. He's released a slew of position papers on topics ranging from health care to crime, and promised to reform Louisiana's ethically challenged political system - a perennial campaign theme that has had limited success among past reform candidates...
...sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, says she had conversations with Diana about them. But nobody knows where they are. "It seems probable that there were such letters, but where they went and whether they still exist remains a mystery," Baker said. And then, touching on what could become the theme for the entire inquest, added: "We shall have to see whether the mystery unfolds in the coming weeks...