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...movie from an Oscar-winning quartet - star Tom Hanks, director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman. Yet nearly as soon as The Da Vinci Code began, the critics fell into a peckish mood. At the end of a long, soggy film, the black-tie swells went off to their parties, and the critics slumped away to write their regretful pans. Though we didn't know it then, The Da Vinci Code experience would turn out to be Cannes 2006 in miniature: great hopes for films that mostly underachieved. The big-name items - Pedro Almodóvar's Volver...
...material is less like a hard-core film, more like a musical. There are songs throughout, though Mitchell didn't write them, and the production numbers have a geometrical elegance and absurdity that suggests a porno Busby Berkeley. And when the movie finally ends (it has more tie-up-the-plot scenes than The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), everybody's back at the salon, singing the anthemic...
...pioneering study of 51 gay Massachusetts couples - 36 of whom have married - research scientists with the Wellesley Centers for Women found that, while all the study participants enthusiastically supported the change in the law, many expressed caution about their own personal decision on whether to marry. They wanted to tie the knot for the "right" reasons, not to "make a political statement or be part of history...
...Kamihara says that she still keeps in some contact with the group, remaining on its e-mail list and occasionally attending its black-tie events, but most of all, she says she is thrilled with its continuing dedication to its mission. “With each new group of students it takes on new energy and grows in new and different ways. I feel quite privileged to have been a part of its founding...
Who’s looking at a dude wearing a navy, yellow-striped bow tie with a bottle of raspberry-lime Poland Springs nestled by his hip? Location: Widener. Atmosphere: Pretentious...