I saw a trailer this week for Richard Gere’s upcoming feature, a soporific remake of the Japanese sleeper Shall We Dance? My first question was, What’s Stanley Tucci doing in this movie? My second question was, Do we get a Celine Dion ballad with the closing credits?
Gere has vandalized perfectly good foreign films before by […]
Posted on April 29th, 2004 by Nils
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My brother-in-law, Tom, recently sent me a New Yorker review of a book entitled The Paradox of Choice. (Ironically, I didn’t run across this review on my own because, as Greg said during a conversation we had over dinner this week, I prefer The Atlantic to The New Yorker because it comes out less frequently—there’s […]
Posted on April 29th, 2004 by Nils
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Johnson Family Vacation is making a splash at the box office this weekend. Art—if the term applies to films starring Cedric the Entertainer—does not imitate life in this case; the Jonsson family will not be making any trips by road or air this summer.
AAA can’t help the roadside emergency that is the Johnson Family Vacation. […]
Posted on April 11th, 2004 by Nils
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Bob Edwards is stepping down as host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” a post he’s held for 24 years. I’ll miss his no-frills style and dry wit.
A few days ago he interviewed one of my musical heroes about his latest record, The Magic Hour.
Those final minutes of the day, when parents everywhere are trying to get […]
Posted on April 1st, 2004 by Nils
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Watching the video (Windows Media Player required) of Bill Gates’s keynote at VSLive! San Francisco, I was astonished to hear him tell conference attendees that the highly anticipated next version of Microsoft Visual Studio is an empty promise.
“(Hmm … maybe I shouldn’t have said that—Ballmer might try to arrange my death in a squash court […]
Posted on April 1st, 2004 by Nils
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