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Happy-Go-Lucky Written and directed by Mike Leigh; rated R; out now Sally Hawkins won the Berlin Film Festival's Best Actress award as a cockeyed-optimist schoolteacher in this larkish entry from the usually dour Brit auteur Leigh (Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake). Even if you don't find Hawkins as adorable as the movie does, you're likely to fall in love with Karina Fernandez, who plays an imperiously funny flamenco teacher...
...lots of other eco-bells and -whistles. Dancers' perspiration will help turn heat-sensitive walls different colors. The toilets will be flushed with rainwater, and even the booze is pretty green: organic, fair-trade alcohol will be served, along with bio-beer, whose makers claim that the aloe vera in it helps increase vitamin uptake as well as reduce the harmful effects of alcohol on the liver. Also, Surya is offering free admission to clubbers who can prove they traveled there by foot, bicycle or public transportation. Of course, given the price of gas these days, it seems unlikely that...
Approximately 30 Law School students were at the Pub, although many admitted that they did not realize that a dean of the College was serving them their drinks. When informed of Dean Kidd’s efforts, Harvard Law School student Vera Ranieri joked about her own dean...
...related to Chekhov’s life, that have made a journey to a strange garden. Realizing that it is Chekhov’s garden, they wait for the legendary master to arrive. The six characters—who include Maxim Gorky, Chekhov’s celebrated contemporary, and Vera Komissarzhevskaya, the most famous Russian actress of Chekhov’s time—want Chekhov to answer questions about their journey to the garden, but he never arrives.“They are looking for a person who gives them answers, but they are looking for the wrong person...
...Vera has since been photographed gazing through the bars at the young cub she can no longer reach. The zookeepers are pondering whether to bring another adult bear, possibly the cub's father, Felix, to the zoo to help Vera overcome her loss, and are seeking another small bear to serve as a companion for the rescued cub. But while the intervention saved the cub's life, it leaves some observers far from happy. "This development is not good for the principle of wildlife conservation in our zoo," said Alexandra Foghammar, spokesperson for the city of Nuremberg...