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...deep the Scrooge impulses that have earned him his fortune - is quickly revealed as the sort of super-rich subspecies Hollywood loves: the curmudgeon with a heart of gold. Nicholson played this character in As Good As It Gets; Andy Griffith had a shot at it this year in Waitress. Both are Old Testament deity types who want to spend their largesse on one lavish good deed, instead of, say, giving all the people in their employ a $2-an-hour pay raise. But, no, that would merely promote the general welfare; movies are about Santa Clauses choosing one person...
...Chairman Mao" will have to do - I'm led into what feels like an executive boardroom: A haze of sweet cigarette smoke hangs over an oval-shaped table around which sit 16 players. I take a slim silver case from the pile on a tray offered by a waitress. It flips open to reveal a card which is not that of a "killer." I try to avoid breathing a sigh of relief. Then the judge's voice rings out over the sound system, "It's night, everybody close your eyes." I belatedly reach for my gray, Darth Vader-style robot...
...Juno this year's Little Miss Sunshine? The superficially spiky, deeply sentimental indie film got nominations for Best Comedy and Best Actress (Ellen Page). Since neither Knocked Up nor Waitress was nominated, Juno has to represent all the 2007 comedies about a woman who gets pregnant without wanting to but brings the thing to term and gets ennobled along the way. (Radical idea for a movie: unmarried heroine has unwanted pregnancy and, like more than a million women every year, gets an abortion, then goes on to live a happy, fulfilled life...
...exhibit on the caucuses. The museum also is hosting the debut of a theatrical production filled with stock caucus characters including: an Iowa farmer named "Eldon Wise" and his family (a.k.a. typical Iowa caucus-goers); political candidates, left, right and center; Marlon, an unemployed factory worker; and Mavis, a waitress at the local cafe. The production is called, naturally, "Caucus! The Musical...
...food’s made fresh to order so the dishes may come out at different times,” our multi-pierced, mohawk-sporting waitress informed us as she punched our orders into a handheld device that looked a lot like my TI-83 Plus. At first, her disclaimer sounded like an over-rehearsed statement of the obvious: shouldn’t all restaurant food be made “fresh to order”? But here’s the hitch: Wagamama is a fast food joint. Was the last Big Mac you ate “made...