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...comes the imagined cineaste reply, to symbolize the existential distance between them, the ineluctable difference between man and woman. Or should one say "Man" and "Woman"? To which my reply is unprintable on a family dotcom. OK, their tale involves a few flashbacks (involving other actors playing younger versions of themselves), and a few brief intrusions on their privacy by small-parts actors, but there is no reason for these matters not to be handled in the time-honored...
...wistful and genially played little piece, which ends with M and W parting ziplessly (as we used to say back in the 70s) by dawn's early light. You have to wonder why anyone thought it was necessary to weigh down what is essentially a weightless little fairy tale with a lot of self-important, even self-aggrandizing, technique. 24 it was never going to be. But on a warm summer's night, when you're in the mood for a romantic anecdote, that might have been a pleasing little gesture...
...securities and white collar crime reporter for The Washington Post, Masters wisely begins her book by giving readers just enough background on Spitzer’s life. We learn of his competitive, brilliant family—“In one often-repeated tale, [Spitzer’s father] Bernard reduced Eliot, then about seven or eight, to tears during a game of Monopoly”—of his academic success, and of his time in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office...
...InOut lamp by Ramon Ubeda and Otto Canalda for Metalarte The more than 2-m-tall Big&Big looms like a giant glowing toadstool. Despite this fairy-tale appearance, it's robustly functional. Its Barcelona designers say the rotation-molded polyethylene shell gives it the toughness of a garbage can. Fortunately, that's where the resemblance ends. www.metalarte.com...
...Before that happens, these complex patterns will show up in Australia's popular culture. The characters in Footy Legends, a new film directed by Khoa Do, reflect that layering. On the surface, this feel-good tale is about a group of mates from the down-at-heel western suburbs of Sydney trying to win a football tournament; beyond this, it's a story about Vietnamese refugee Luc Vu's battle to retain custody of his little sister Anne after the death of their mother. In one sense, it's formulaic film-making (the triumph over adversity), but Footy Legends...