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...herself the celebrity now, as the last person to have seen the missing star alive. As she slips into a life where privacy is obsolete, she starts to be visited by actresses from the past--Dorothy Lamour, Tallulah Bankhead, Marion Davies--who seem as real to her as the Virgin Mary might to other kinds of believers. We have entered the shivery realm of celebrity magic realism...
...must refrain from criticizing the masses too harshly, though, for I am what you might call a born-again cell-phone virgin. For two exciting months this past summer, I had a cell phone to call my own (get it? call?) while I was researching for Let’s Go USA. It was fulfilling, in a way, to have a phone nestled snugly in the cell-phone pouch on my purse, a pouch that had previously been reserved for Tic Tacs. Of course it took me a week or two to figure out how the voicemail system operated...
...Among an attractively aimless flock of singles, All the Real Girls focuses on two figures: Paul (Paul Schneider), 22, a Dennis Quaid look-alike with the rep of a ladies' man who "took 'em down and laughed about 'em on the way home," and Noel (Zooey Deschanel), a precocious virgin just becoming aware of her power over men. She doesn't want to go to college and spend "four years writing bad girl-poetry"; he is reluctant to take advantage of the first girl who could make him fall into the abyss of love...
...Thomas, Virgin Islands...
...object as “menacing” is highly subjective at best. Given our nation’s historically vigorous defense of freedom of expression, the burden of proof lies with Rosenfeld to explain what distinguishes this snow sculpture from, for example, a painting of the Virgin Mary with feces smeared across it (a piece no doubt “menacing” to Christians, but nonetheless protected under law). Her statements offer nothing to support her position...