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...Especially when Jacob Black arrives on the scene to distract her from her melancholy. Where Pattinson's Edward is cold, bloodless and trapped in his head, Taylor Lautner's Jacob is warm, tawny, genial and able to get Kristen Stewart's shrink-wrapped Bella to stretch out and relax a little onscreen. It's as though the sun can come back out once Edward leaves; there are genuinely funny moments in their scenes together, not to mention sexual tension. Expect an eruption in the theater during the scene in which a thrill-seeking Bella wrecks the motorcycle Jacob rebuilt...
...offer rides to strangers standing along Mt. Auburn St.—he knew bus stops were especially fertile places to find people. “Dad, what are you doing?” daughter Barbara J. Walsh remembers asking her father on those morning trips. The genial former police captain, a man who acquaintances say practiced this same shameless generosity to students in his decades of service at Harvard, passed away in a hospice facility at 2 a.m. yesterday after years of declining health. He was 91. Walsh joined the Harvard police force in 1952 and rose...
...movie's second half has more appeal to a general audience, perhaps because most of the other Presidents are less famous or notorious than Chávez, perhaps because the first half has conditioned us to a rigorously genial treatment of them. Lula da Silva brags that Brazil paid off the IMF debt and that the country now has a $260 billion surplus. (Irmao, can you spare us a dime?) Morales, the first indigenous President of Bolivia, says he considers himself "less a President than a union leader." The Illinois-educated Correa says smilingly that the U.S. can again have...
...During her decade at GMA, Sawyer famously snagged highly desirable guests because she was Diane freakin' Sawyer. Celebrities were warm to her because she was married to director Mike Nichols, the world's most genial man. Hard-news guests appreciated her résumé of serious journalism, which includes stints on 60 Minutes and Primetime Live. Plus, she's a legendarily hard worker. (A request for an interview - she must have gotten hundreds - was met with a polite personal e-mail: "I'm not talking right now but will remember you called.") As a booker at a rival show...
...says that certain classified information "falls well within my purview," Malcolm explodes: "Within your purview? Where do you think you are, some f---in, Regency costume drama? This is a government department, not some f---in, Jane f---in, Austen novel!" And the movie is not one of those genial Brit rom-coms like Notting Hill or Four Weddings and a Funeral. It's closer to the high-IQ ranting in plays by John Osborne and TV dramas by Dennis Potter. Put all these witty, rancid voices together and you hear the wail of a depleted nation that has lost...