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Sending this out to my blogfriend , whom I believe is on a hiatus of the I-don't-have-time variety. I hope he won't mind if I borrow a couple of his features for this post only. She & Him - I Was Made For You Jonathan Richman - When We Refuse To Suffer American Music Club - Another Morning ...
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Cate Blanchett talks to Jack White . (Interview) JW: [both laugh] I wanted to ask you what aspects of the theater company in Sydney you're involved with. Are you interested in the lighting? Let's start there. CB: Basically, we've programmed 12 one-woman shows based around the various ...
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Cate Blanchett
Let it begin. The Spirit Award nominations are out and as usual there are far too many on this list I haven't had the opportunity to see. I am pleased to see Rachel Getting Married among the top nominees as well as not very surprising recognition for Richard Jenkins. (Indie Eye) Best ...
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Rachel Getting Married
Richard Jenkins
The Spirit
Frozen River
Jonathan Demme
Wendy and Lucy
A piece of fiction David Foster Wallace was working on in the months before his death (part of a new novel?) will be published in a college literary magazine . (The Howling Fantods)
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Richard Belzer's novel has fun with his familiar TV persona, Det. John Munch. (Ben and Alice) We see Belzer on the set of SVU, practicing his lines, feeling good about nailing a scene, enlisting his personal assistant to be his Gal Friday, and, weirdly enough, practicing (and deploying) ...
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Mad Men
William Petersen
James Woods
George Clooney
A disaffected World of Warcraft player speaks out . This sort of makes me want to reconsider that PSP I'm getting for Christmas (but not really). (Monadology) I've often thought about myself as a character in the Sims, being controlled by a higher gamer. How poorly he manages me! I'm allowed ...
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It isn't exactly The Magnificent Ambersons , but there is a lost version of Woody Allen's September (which I just saw for the first time) floating around out there somewhere. Allen's Chekhovian country-house melodrama (inspired by Mia Farrow's house but filmed on a soundstage) was reshot with ...
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Woody Allen
Mia Farrow
Blogs as tools of change in the Middle East. (American Footprints) One way I've tentatively started thinking about these issues is to ask whether and how new technologies create new kinds of opportunities, such as radio providing the chance to reach out to the illiterate without a physical ...
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The blurry (at best) line between pop music and Madison Avenue . (Miller-McCune) The watershed event that a lot of people will talk about is the use of The Beatles’ “Revolution” by Nike (in 1987). Which brought up a lot of the more moral aspects, since people became aware that The Beatles ...
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Brian Eno on the virtues of group singing . So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than ...
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My Thanksgiving consisted of family, bad football, the food pictured above, and a Maigret novel. Here's hoping yours was just as good.
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Why NP didn't get the role that went to Amy Adams in Doubt . (NY Post)
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Amy Adams
Natalie Portman
Joey Burns of Calexico on the band's creative process . (Muzzle of Bees) MoB: What is the core of Calexico’s sound then? JB: I think it’s an approach. It’s this kind of aesthetic the way in which John plays the drums. The way we look at the instrumentation. The way we produce it and the way we ...
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I knwo what you're thinking: I should take Thanksgiving off. After dealing with Black Friday shoppers tomorrow I may be too tired to blog, so here are a few posts to keep the newsreader from filling up. Check out an interview (in podcast form) with Rosemarie Dewitt and screenwriter Jenny Lumet ...
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Rachel Getting Married
The Riches
The first feature from playwright Martin McDonagh concerns two hitmen (Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell) awaiting instructions in the Belgian city after carrying out a job. Like all the McDonagh I've encountered it's profane, violent, and funny and given some roots by Farrell's performance ...
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In Bruges
Brendan Gleeson
Colin Farrell
Ralph Fiennes
A minor flap has erupted about Prince's gay marriage views as expressed in The New Yorker. Perez Hilton rides to Prince's defense while Mr. Remnick & Co. stand by their story. (Listening Post) Contrary to what a recent interview with the New Yorker is reporting, a source close to the rocker ...
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