Word: yorkerism
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Though he hasn't quite shed the irksome attitude of movies past, Affleck is quite a charmer in his latest role as a free-lance jacket copyrighter being put to the loyalty test in Forces of Nature. He plays New Yorker Ben Holmes, a loving fiance and nervous flyer. On the way to his wedding in Savannah, unexpected forces of nature-perhaps a few too many-transform what should've been a three-hour flight into a two-day adventure...
...randier and more promiscuous than women? David Kendall didn't use it, but this could have been the biological brief for the President's defense during the impeachment proceedings, as propounded by M.I.T. cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker in the New Yorker. It's in the male's genetic self-interest to impregnate as many females as possible, while the female usually can produce only a dozen or so offspring in her lifetime no matter how much she messes around, so why should she try? Furthermore, the female consort of man-the-hunter didn't dare cheat on him lest...
...substance and flash than any other musical so far this dismal season. Goodman's adaptation, quite faithful to the novel, follows Jamie (nameless in the book though called Jamie in the 1988 movie starring Michael J. Fox) from his dreary job as a fact checker for a snooty, New Yorker-style magazine through his debauched, drug-addled all-nighters on the New York club circuit. It fleshes out, via flashbacks, his fashion-model ex-wife, with whom he's still obsessed, and his mother, whose death a year earlier he still hasn't come to terms with. Greif's production...
...MAGAZINE] THE NEW YORKER...
...have landed a new way to shore up revenue: send the writers on vacation, and get people to pay to go with them. Inspired in part by the conservative National Review, which has dabbled in marketing vacations at sea since 1994, both the leftist Nation and the bookish New Yorker recently christened cruise-and-lecture ventures. Cosmopolitan and Town & Country are also thinking about casting off. Here's a quick guide to the seafaring 'zines...