My subject header is from today's NY Times film review below.
Just heard the news about Alvah Chapman
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December 25th, 2008
Well, as you can see below, Brad Pitt has once again triumphed over ex-wife Jennifer Aniston.
It goes without saying, I never read the book the film is based on, so I'm guessing that unlike certain reporters I could name, L'Aniston doesn't play a smart and savvy crime beat reporter, with a nose for news and an ear for prose, who often finds herself in the worst possible places at the worst possible time in people's lives, right?
A Hildy Johnson for the multimedia age, who isn't afraid for daily newspapers' future.
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Let me guess, Jen plays a fun-loving "lifestyle" reporter?
In the original version of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," the holiday classic based on the Charles M. Schulz comic strip, Charlie Brown and Linus rescue a forlorn little Christmas tree from the City of Hallandale Beach.
It is full of broken limbs, cigarette burns and gang graffiti, and the city employees never turned on the holiday lights they spent three full days putting up.
Just like the situation tonight and the past few weeks on Hallandale Beach Blvd., near the Boston Market, and in front of HB City Hall.
Plugged-in lights that never come on, i.e Darkness on the Edge of Town.
Yes, those would be the same exact holiday lights on the median of HBB that city employees were putting up about a week before Election Day, eliminating a lane of eastbound traffic during the day -for a few days.
Maybe if some HB city employees actually lived in the town they drew their paychecks from, or even better, Dept. head actually lived here, they'd actually notice self-evident things like this.
Maybe.
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New York Times
MOVIE REVIEW
Marley & Me
Going to the Dog and Getting a Life
By Stephen Holden
December 25, 2008
To watch "Marley & Me," the bland, obsequious adaptation of John Grogan's best-selling memoir of his up-and-down relationship with an unruly Labrador retriever, is to tune in to an era that seems so close and yet so distant. In those naïve old days — the 1990s through the first part of this century — Florida real estate boomed, newspapers flourished and the heavens rained money.
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Pajamas Media
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A New American Classic?
Posted By Kyle Smith
December 25, 2008
Hollywood films rarely even attempt the sweep and heartbreak of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a bewitching, at times overpowering movie that seems likely to win about 50 Oscars. There aren't actually that many Oscars to hand out, but I wouldn't put it past the Academy to invent some new categories. Based on but greatly expanded from an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, the film by Fight Club director David Fincher proves that this gifted director can deploy all of his visual gifts to create a richly satisfying, emotionally engaging, and more than a bit schmaltzy old-time romance with heavy assistance from digital and makeup technology...
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Movie Review
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
By A.O. Scott
December 25, 2008
