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...Rosaleen work for the family, they fall in love with the quirky sisters and ultimately gain a sense of belonging. The cliché story of Lily’s search to know her mother becomes secondary to the unique habits of the Boatwright sisters. The romantic relationships that blossom for both June Boatwright (Keys) and Lily are adorable diversions from the coming-of-age plot. Although there are scenes that deal with the racially turbulent times, the movie doesn’t explore the politics of racism further. Like any good movie worthy of an appearance on Oprah, the strength...

Author: By Keara D. Cormier-hill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Secret Life of Bees | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

Misa Kuranaga stole most of the first act as “Blossom,” one of four assistants to the Fairy Godmother, who presides over the aforementioned—magical—backyard garden. In a variation that could not have lasted longer than two minutes, her absolutely perfect execution was as crystal-clear as the glass slipper that’s missing from Kudelka’s production...

Author: By Erica A. Sheftman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cinderella Puts On Her Ballet Slippers | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...What’s that, Karl?” “Knockout punch. Has that blowhard Biden ever been seen with an infant not his own—non-white, preferably?” “Come on, Turd Blossom, that trick only works once a decade. Voters are getting sick and tired; hell, it’s starting to look like there’s such thing as ‘too mean’. And hey, not to sass back here, but since when did mistrust of everything ain’t white become a party...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: From Republican Headquarters | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...person, the author possesses a remarkable stony expression that clashes with his movie-idol good looks; he projects a physical sense of the intense focus and purposefulness that powers his writing. His protagonists are often humble people who blossom in the face of difficulty. His most important novel is generally considered to be Désert, published in 1980 and largely set in the Moroccan Sahara. A lyrical, occasionally hallucinatory work, it deals with the marginalized but still fundamentally vital lives of African nomads, as contrasted with the bleakness of modern urban European life. "Western culture has become too monolithic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Novelist Le Clézio: A Nobel Surprise | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

Barry Diller's Match.com is the Internet dating world's two-ton Cupid, dominating online romance in the U.S., where two-thirds of its 1.3 million paid subscribers live. Match is all business, and that business is landing a mate. On Meetic, the cyber chestnuts are always in blossom, and love is as much a game as a goal. In 2005, a French cad named Lewis Wingrove published a blog and later a book graphically cataloguing a year's worth of Meetic conquests (52 dates, 27 of which finished "sous la couette" - under the quilt.) Meetic founder and chief executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monsieur Cupid: Dating Online | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

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