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...part because of its pensive cinematography and a mournful, unique Rickee Lee Jones soundtrack. The film really captivates, though, because of its freshness as a distinctly post-feminist, post-boomer, twenty-first century story. It frightened me so much that these familiar feeling women—who have broken the glass ceiling, had their perfect children, built their Barbie dream home, and still have amazing social lives and fabulous shoes—are supposed to be the role models to whom I look up, but even they are dissatisfied and depressed upon turning 43. Where the fuck are we supposed...
...pour concrete fast enough. The banks are open 7 to 7, seven days a week; the pager shops are everywhere. All the roads are being widened, their shoulders littered with pieces of blown-out tires. Locals say you are not really a borderlander until your windshield has been broken at least once, by one of the rocks flying out from under the big rigs...
...first time in years, maybe ever, both the U.S. and Mexico have leaders who understand this region, know that in some ways their hemisphere's economic future may depend on whether they can fix what is broken here. Bush met with Fox three times in his first 100 days, blowing away the old once-a-year tradition. Fox dreams of a day when the border will open and his countrymen will no longer flee to survive. As Fox told Ernesto Ruffo, his top aide on the region, "Put holes in the border...
ZIYI ZHANG The star of Memoirs of a Geisha has broken down barriers for Chinese actors. I hope Ang Lee is on the list. Because of him, Chinese filmmaking will be better recognized by the U.S. film industry. He has made his fellow Chinese extremely proud. I would also include Wang Yung-ching, a Taiwanese businessman who is donating hearing implants to the children of China this year, and Professor Han Demin, the head of Beijing's Tongren Hospital, because of his charity fund-raising efforts...
Slevin (Josh Hartnett) arrives in New York City with a broken nose and no wallet and unable to find the friend in whose apartment he's staying. On the upside, there's food in the cupboard and a funny, flirtatious woman (Lucy Liu) across the hall. On the downside, he gets abducted, in a towel and slippers, by a pair of thugs, and we begin to wonder just how ironic the title Lucky Number Slevin is going...