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...possibly just people who like things) that makes them susceptible to the lure of lists. Top Ten Films of All Time, Top 14 Movie Villains, Top 25 Serbian Horror Flicks-the combinations are endless. In his latest, Have You Seen...?, film critic and historian David Thomson, author of the singular The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, delivers a binding-busting list of one thousand flicks you need to check out. Not that he likes-or even respects-all of these movies. Rather, he writes, "This is a book created to meet the question frequently asked of anyone with a reputation...
...action. In its essentials, “The Express” is a movie we’ve seen before, and of a type that we’ll see again. To be sure, there are worse causes than raising awareness about Ernie Davis’s singular and inspirational story. Unfortunately, the overwhelming conventionality of “The Express” sands away this unique surface into an all too recognizable form. —Staff writer Alec N. Halaby can be reached at halaby@fas.harvard.edu...
...know, just that they were men each consumed by a singular thought or idea - at least that was the case with the first part of Little Miss Sunshine. You don't see any parallels? In the case of [Robert] Kearns, here's a guy being marginalized by the Ford Motor Company and subsequently is marginalizing his own family. I suppose, if you look at Little Miss Sunshine, there was a guy who was losing his way with his family over his pursuit of a 10 Steps deal. Characters that have a real strong identification to whatever they're trying...
This mix of emotions, the intricate tightrope walk between comedy and tragedy--Ayckbourn's greatest feat, really--may be why his work has got short shrift in America. Early in his career, after such West End (and occasional Broadway) successes as Absurd Person Singular, Ayckbourn was labeled, patronizingly, the "British Neil Simon." But as his plays have grown darker and more complex, Broadway has largely abandoned him. Although Communicating Doors, one of his lesser comedies, had a successful run off-Broadway a couple of seasons back and Comic Potential, his latest West End hit, will be produced this fall...
Kgalema Motlanthe, who been named by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) as its nominee for caretaker president of South Africa, is a consensus candidate - a singular achievement in a party largely bereft of consensus. Motlanthe appears set to take the reins from Thabo Mbeki, whose resignation was demanded by the ruling party after a judge accused Mbeki's government of improperly interfering in the prosecution on corruption charges of his chief rival, Jacob Zuma. Zuma, who beat out Mbeki in a bitterly-fought campaign for leadership of the ANC last December, can't assume the presidency until next year...