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HAZARDOUS WHEN WET...
Directed by James Ivory Sony Pictures Classics 3 1/2 stars With a cast that includes Ralph Fiennes and almost the entire Redgrave family, “The White Countess” is an Anglophile’s wet dream. The final venture between legendary director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, who passed away in 2004, “The White Countess” does not quite measure up to their past sweeping classics (“Surviving Picasso” or “Howards End”). Fortunately, extraordinary acting makes up for rather drab dialogue and slow...
...appearance was at the end of my very first day on the big R, as we users call it. I have no clear memory of what I said, probably because I woke up three times that night, with a start, as if someone had hit me with a wet sock. At 3:10 a.m., I remembered I owed my mother money. At 4:12 a.m., I felt guilty about something I said to my son. At 5:14 a.m., I deeply regretted a headline I had written. Dr. Mark hadn't warned me about this: Ritalin is basically a drug...
...setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Lambeth-based company, Blink, the duo eschewed the commonly used dry-press method, where fine powder is compressed to form tiles, in favor of wet clay production, which lends clay its personality as it dries. But it's an expensive method, reflected in the tiles' cost - $215 to $250 per sq m - and it spurred Rege and Turner to create seductive designs to justify the price tag. "We wanted to get away from the Arts...
...that idea. What you can't imagine is what Eric Van Looy, a gifted Belgian director does with it in his low key, persuasively realistic thriller. His killer, whose moral sense is completely intact, no matter what's going wrong with his less-than-total recall, learns that his wet work is designed to protect a ring of child vicious child abusers, whose members include highly placed government figures. He begins leaving enigmatic clues about the real criminals with a harassed detective and this unbalanced man ends up restoring something like balance to a complex and elegantly realized corner...