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...older than the target audience for action-adventures, however elegantly crafted. It's not that Hollywood folk don't get these films; after all, they made 'em. It's that they don't think the grand-scale technical skill lavished on a Dark Knight or an Iron Man is as honorable as the spectacle of two guys talking--as long as one of them is Richard Nixon...
...Soldier of the Great War, by Mark Helprin One of my favorite books, which I'm rereading. This gorgeous tale unfolds in Umbria as an old man walks--for three days--with a young boy and recounts his experiences in World War I, a war that the boy knows nothing about. The language is exquisite, the imagery powerful, and funny...
...wise to take a knife to them all. In this, Gates has little choice: the military's annual budget has finished growing, and the billions it once imagined it might spend on future weapons have evaporated. So cuts--and big ones--are coming, and Gates will be the man who makes them...
...turns out the Academy hires pros like Bruce Vilanch for the presenter banter but lets the host pick his own team. This makes sense when the host is a comedian with a staff of writers. It makes less sense when the host is known for being PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive. What I've learned from late-night Cinemax is that sexy people don't place a high value on writing. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...Songs the Lord Taught Us, which, despite its underground popularity, proved that the Lord hadn't taught them much at all. But what the band lacked in musical skill it made up for with absurdist humor and attitude. Most of that emanated from gender-bent front man Lux Interior, who died on Feb. 4 in Glendale, Calif...