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The movie named "f-word"

I will be using a word generally considered offensive a little later in this blog entry, so it's only prudent to tell you now. It is not an uncommon word, and I imagine every single one of my readers if…

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To spoil or not to spoil? (Don't worry.)

The guy in the black suit is really the millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne who became a caped crusader after his parents were killed. And he's played by Christian Bale, just like in the previous movie, "Batman Begins." Ooops. Is that…

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Sex and the City: Girls do poop!

View image SJP sports her power flower. "The weekend opening [of 'Sex and the City'] also ranked as the strongest ever for a movie carried by a female lead (at least if ticket-price inflation is not taken into account). Paramount’s…

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Sex and the City Dog

Gidget Gormley, "the world's cutest dog," stars in SATC. In the Answer Man column for Friday, June 13, I write: "Oddly enough, searching the AM's Google Mail account for questions about 'Sex and the City,' I found that all the…

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Poetry in motion -- and it rhymes, too

View image The animated banners, archived, are worth the price of admission alone... Jonathan Lapper offers an inspired free-associative montage/meditation on the moving part of the movies at Cinema Styles, which you must see. It's called "Frames of Reference," a…