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...Cera is Nick Twisp, the hyper-intelligent son of a divorced Oakland, Calif., couple, foolish Estelle (Jean Smart) and aggrieved George (Steve Buscemi), who would rather not pay child support. Nick, a self-proclaimed voracious reader of "classic prose," watches in disgust as his mother makes out with her scam-artist boyfriend Jerry (Zach Galifianakis, cinematic slob du jour). Across town, Dad is groping his young girlfriend, Lacey (Ari Graynor, Cera's hilarious co-star from Nick & Norah...
Committed gives us a woman trapped in a command performance she's too smart not to be dubious about. She seems self-conscious about the need to remain everyone's best friend, littering her prose with chirpy asides ("Listen, I want to make it clear here that I am not intrinsically against passion. Mercy, no!") and cutesy interjections ("Just a little free advice there, from your Auntie Liz"). Then there are the apologies for anything that might offend. Her eloquent defense of gay marriage, for instance, is diminished by this chatty advisory: "You see where I'm heading with this...
Researchers for “Bright Star” used some of the same letters at Houghton to construct the scenes of dedication and love shared between Keats and Brawne in the English countryside. Even in the film, Director Jane Campion chose to let Keats’ prose take center stage. “Jane’s number one mantra throughout the pre-production process was to keep the visuals simple,” said the film’s cinematographer Greig Fraser said in an email interview. “I’m sure this was largely...
...poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” to each other. Houghton’s inscribed copy of Keat’s poem, “Lamia,” to Brawne certainly alludes to the possible ways the two romantics expressed their love through prose...
...Generally, an Examiner.com news story is a compendium of tidbits culled from other websites, neither advancing the story nor bringing any insight (a description, it should be noted, that can be just as fairly applied to many offerings of more mainstream media). Most Examiners are not journalists, and their prose is not edited. CEO Rick Blair, who helped launch AOL's Digital Cities, an earlier attempt at a local-news network, calls them "pro-am" - more professional than bloggers, but more amateur than most reporters. You might also call them traffic hounds: because their remuneration is set by, among other...