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...chief difference between their first two records is that this one is even louder and faster. D Is for Dangerous and Fluorescent Adolescent swagger by on ferocious guitar swells, but they also swing, with unpredictable pace shifts perfect for dancing and allowing singer Alex Turner to show off his wit. "Do the bad thing/ Take off your wedding ring," he snarls, reminding you that in rock the bad thing can still feel pretty damned good...
...band’s topics typically have far more gravity—and variety. “Traffic and Weather” addresses all its topics—from crushing on DMV workers to being the target of hitmen—with perceptive, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, wit. The first two albums released by Fountains of Wayne, headed by New Jersey natives Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger, were only moderately successful (read: largely ignored by the mainstream). With their 2003 record, “Welcome Interstate Managers,” they broke into the world of VH1, MTV, and Grammy...
...Rugged” Rudgate (Aaron Stanford, “X-Men: The Last Stand”) and his notorious life of crime. Initially, Rugged’s attempts at law-breaking are so pathetic that the only person who thinks he’s cool is his half-wit sidekick, Lagrand (Paul Schneider, “All the Real Girls”). Through twists of fate and macabre miscommunication, however, Rugged bumbles into a status upgrade from town peon to local legend and “cop killer” by the end of the film. “Live...
...single mom (Penlope Cruz, above left) hears rumors that her dead mother (Carmen Maura) is haunting their hometown. This unlocks closets full of family secrets and director Pedro Almodvar's unique mix of earthy wit and fire. So maybe he's not working at quite the apogee of emotion and cinematic daring of his All About My Mother and Talk to Her. That makes Volver only about the sixth best film of the past decade...
...readers left or right. Rather, the human fallout of the Knesset's political posturing is an incessant background hum. In a way that sneaks up on them, several of the book's characters have their lives eaten away by their army experiences. The deadbeat heroes elicit a dead-pan wit. "He had no future," Keret writes of one of his leading men. "He didn't even have a near present...