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...Good Year, directed by Ridley Scott and written by Marc Klein from the Peter Mayle novel, practically does backflips to win you over. It tosses London investment banker Max Skinner (Russell Crowe) into a sleepy town in Provence, where, be warned, he will get life and love lessons from the locals. It's like Cars but without the animation, if you know what I mean...
...While steamy fiction has briefly become the latest battlefield in the Virginia Senate race-with Republican incumbent George Allen accusing his opponent Jim Webb of demeaning women in various sex scenes from his best-selling novels-Head's equating romance novels with pornography has become the flashpoint of the race. The Democrat's description of Republican opponent Susan Combs as a "pornographic book writer" because she wrote one romance novel 26 years ago has set off an outcry not just in Texas, but throughout the vast community of writers and readers who have been quick to come to the defense...
...with Susan Combs's campaign. "The comptroller's office, in Texas, is a key office," Bashur says. "The nuts and bolts of state government run through the comptroller's office. There's a whole array of issues and topics a candidate could discuss. Mr. Head has chosen the romance novel-which has not been a subject of that office in its entire history...
...romance novel blogs people who know nothing about the Texas comptroller's office are passionately discussing the controversy. "It's an insult to romance writers-and readers-everywhere," says Sophie Jordan, a Houston romance writer. "It's banded everyone together-it doesn't matter to anybody if they're Democrat, Republican, or Communist-we've taken great exception to it. For him to label it pornography is labeling everybody who reads the book a pornographer...
...rare occasions that Cohen does move beyond this tedium, the novel feels like something a fifth grader would write. When Santini arrives with his six-pack abs in Tiananmen Square, he kills several soldiers single-handedly, shoots down a helicopter with a handgun, and then proceeds to kick the rogue general in the balls. If this is the way our leaders see the world, is it any wonder that things are such a mess...