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...offer here, and it's not hard to see where the writer, Dana Fox, and the director, Tom Vaughan, went wrong. Whatever audience for high (or even medium) wit once existed has mostly decamped for Assisted Living. There remains a small slightly doddering crowd that's up for small, well-written comedies like Helen Hunt's Then She Found Me, which is currently playing in a release that will remain forever limited to older people who are not afraid to visit the "art" houses Mass market comedy (unless Judd Apatow and his heart-healthy pals are involved) is pitched largely...
...analyze our own. “Battlestar” has amazing characters, so numerous and well-developed that I could spend an entire extra article telling you about how terrific they are. But what’s the point if you’re already set against the medium in which they appear? When you deny yourself television, you’re denying yourself access to what may be one of the greatest means of getting to know great characters. Long-running, well-written shows like “Battlestar” have breadth and depth of character that films...
...find him to be a redeeming, even lovable, presence in not-so-hot movies. But he is not a great physical comedian, and it is asking a lot of his recessive screen character to carry film virtually single-handed. He needs the kind of help he got in a well-written , cleverly-plotted comedy like The Wedding Crashers, which is precisely what is not provided in this lazy, predictable movie...
...latest shock to his psyche and offers the reader a sense of peace, he does not resolve all the conflicts. Baxter is careful to leave many questions unanswered and many avenues still open for exploration, allowing the reader to sort out Nathanial’s complicated existence without his well-written guidance. —Staff Writer Eric M. Sefton can be reached at esefton@fas.harvard.edu...
...intelligent people should reject “a narrow, debased concept of entertainment.” Instead, Chabon proposed an expanded definition encompassing “everything pleasurable that arises from the encounter of an attentive mind with a page of literature”—a well-written sentence, a shocking plot twist, a pointed challenge to our political or philosophical beliefs, or an ineffable moment of transcendence. In “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” Chabon fulfills that essay’s promise, and entertains wildly. Set in a fictional universe...