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...film is full of slightly weird children, plus a certain amount of sexual tension - you may be an in-law, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're sexually uninteresting to someone else in the crowded family manse - but none of this turns A Christmas Tale into a farce. Desplechin is aware of the humorous cross-currents in the film, but he's not out to exploit them. He's a more serious filmmaker than that, interested in exploring the wayward, occasionally inexplicable tensions of a group bound together more by the accidents of birth than by any true communality...
...history in Washington." Indeed, several members of Lincoln's Cabinet belonged to Epiphany, and it was also very active in supporting the civil rights movement in the 1960s. "It would be an interesting choice that appears to resonate with the new First Family's politics and theology," says Bass. "Plus, my 11-year-old daughter wants Malia in her Sunday school class...
...Hyde lobby: Enter on one side for a serene, low-key experience; on the other, you get a hopping, nightclub-like scene (the owner also owns several L.A. clubs). Located between Beverly Hills and Hollywood, the hotel has a pool, tapas bar, pâtisserie and Spanish restaurant, plus furnishings designed by Philippe Starck. According to the hotel's rep, the designer's innovation was to put the bed in the middle of the room, so the "businessman can work while watching his wife sleep." 465 South La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles...
Leave Your Heart... The 100-year-old Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, originally modeled after the grand hotels of Europe, has two holiday packages. For skating buffs, $169 per night buys a room, plus ice-skate rental and entry to the skating rink on Union Square right outside the hotel's front door. For shopaholics, $234 gets visitors a room and a $100 gift certificate to Macy's nearby. The hotel is currently undergoing a $40 million renovation, which is being done floor by floor, according to the hotel rep, so as not to disturb guests. Offers are good...
...most labor-intensive phase is about to begin, as teams of Obama aides descend on more than 100 federal departments and agencies to begin poring over their operations. Meanwhile, the new Administration is looking for more than 300 Cabinet secretaries, deputies and assistant secretaries, plus upwards of 2,500 political appointees who do not require Senate confirmation. Not that there will be any lack of candidates: in the first five days after Obama's team set up its Change.gov website, 144,000 applications poured...