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...caring, achieving, in love, this couple could be on the cover of New York magazine as a symbol of what makes America's largest city work. David Kirmani (Lost's Naveen Andrews) is a physician, Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) a public-radio spieler who paints sound portraits of her town, now and in its glorious past. She hearts New York...
...that century; New York's murder rate has fallen back to 1966 levels; and we have a movie that wants to attach the old dread to a very livable town. The Brave One makes urban paranoia a form of nostalgia. A caller to Erica's radio shows voices that sentiment. "I think it's good for New York," he says of the mystery killer's exploits. "This place was turning into Disneyland." Like the Bronson character, Erica has become a hero to edgy New Yorkers - because she kills people who deserve to die. Or, rather, she takes the role...
...kind of acceptance that does not vitiate his desire to see justice done. This is, I think, a great performance by one of the great movie minimalists. And Haggis has provided him with a perfectly matched context, recording without overt commentary the strip-joint, hooker-ridden town that exists to serve the needs of soldiers too young for thought to govern appetites, the kind of place where a convenience store clerk cheerfully works topless. Is the movie an analogy of Iraq? Not perfectly, but well enough. Does it say something about contemporary American cheesiness? Yes, to some degree. Does Hank...
...MCCANNS, WHO LIVE IN CENTRAL England, had gone on vacation with a few friends to Praia da Luz (Beach of Light), a tourist town in southern Portugal. The resort they chose, the Ocean Club, had a reputation for being kid-friendly. On May 3, the group was dining at the resort's tapas bar while the kids slept. At about 10 p.m., Kate McCann has said, she went to check on Madeleine and her siblings, 2-year-old twins Sean and Amelie. Madeleine was gone. The McCanns were not initially suspected; they have consistently denied any role in the disappearance...
...many people it ticks off before airing a single frame (think Joe Millionaire), then CBS's Kid Nation is one of the most successful reality shows of all time. The series, in which 40 children, ages 8 to 15, create their own society in a New Mexico ghost town, has been accused of violating child-labor laws. Various publications have reported that several kids mistakenly drank bleach from an unmarked bottle, and one was spattered with hot grease while cooking. Embarrassment-wise, CBS is only lucky that the cast is by definition too young to have DUI histories...