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...difference between bliss and rage is the subtle shifting of about two facial muscles. With Daniels (The Squid and the Whale) and Pucci (Thumbsucker) joined by Kat Dennings (Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist) and Olivia Thirlby (Snow Angels), the movie is like a convention of appealing indie stars. Writer-director John Hindman mostly gives them room to breathe, and The Answer Man is likable because it doesn't try too hard to be. (See pictures of LIFE's best celebrity covers...
...Director Marc Webb (a vide-auteur making his first feature) gives every scene a bang for comic or emotional effect; as he cuts away you can hear the rim shot. The songs that spray-paint the sound track, as well as the myriad movie references, are mostly antique (1960s to '80s); Webb wants old people to like this young-lovers film. Wants everyone...
...rates and the economic storm soaking taxpayers, the $142.6 billion budget shortfall that states faced during the 2009 fiscal year is but one hurdle in a longer financial gauntlet, according to this bleak assessment from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). Corina Eckl, the NCSL's fiscal program director, recently compared the endless waves of grim economic forecasts to "breaking your leg and then getting pneumonia." Cheery stuff...
...Citigroup results indicate continued deterioration on the credit side," says Christopher Whalen, managing director of research firm Institutional Risk Analytics. "Citi is an outlier in terms of loss rates, above Bank of America and Wells Fargo...
...press House leaders to include in the bill a provision that would take the job of setting Medicare rates out of the hands of Congress and give it to an independent agency. Presumably, that agency would have more expertise and be less susceptible to political pressure. Obama Budget Director Peter Orszag has called such a move a "game changer" that could bring down health-care costs, though no one has a precise estimate of how much could be saved...