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Bridesmaids: Kristin Wiig’s Merry Band of Party Poopers
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What Would Ayn Rand Have Done?
A great day for the United States of America?
Cinema: Of Mad Max and Madder Maximus
Russell Crowe was not director Ridley Scott’s first choice to play the gladiator.
In Liana Liberato We ‘Trust’: Schwimmer’s Pedophilia Tale
Much like this week’s splashy action picture Source Code, Trust features a story line about people at the mercy of technology. But there’s no science-fiction component to director David Schwimmer’s grim story of Internet-based pedophilia, and there’s no aspect of it that doesn’t feel painfully plausible.
Woman Power: The Rise of the Sheconomy
In the hierarchy of activities that people despise, getting a car repaired is in pole position, sort of the auto equivalent of having a tooth pulled, except you bleed money and don’t get a smiley sticker as you leave.
Sucker Punch Review: Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid
Sucker punch: In theaters where this movie is playing, it’s a beverage sold at the concession stand.
CIA Chief Panetta Winning Over Doubters at the Agency
Whatever Leon Panetta lacked in formal intel experience he would make up for with his political smarts. That was one of the chief points made in his favor when the Obama Administration named the former California congressman and Clinton White House chief of staff as its first CIA Director.
Overseas Turf War Between the CIA and DNI Continues
Can anyone end the dispute between the nation’s intelligence chiefs? The National Security Council tried and failed; National Security Adviser Jim Jones tried and failed.
Report: Nuclear inspectors visit newly revealed Iran plant
United Nations-backed nuclear inspectors on Sunday visited a newly disclosed Iranian nuclear facility near the city of Qom, Iranian media has reported. That proposal calls for low-enriched uranium produced in Iran to be sent abroad for further enrichment and then returned for use in medical research and treatment.
Review: ‘Amelia’ doesn’t fly
“Amelia” is a frustratingly old-school, Hollywood-style, inspirational biopic about Amelia Earhart that doesn’t trust a viewer’s independent assessment of the famous woman pictured on the screen. The mystery we ought to be paying attention to is: What really happened on the legendary American aviator’s final, fatal flight in 1937 But the question audiences are left with is this: How could so tradition-busting a role model have resulted in so square, stiff, and earthbound a movie Why present such a modern woman in such a fusty format Dressed for the title role in a wardrobe of jumpsuits, leather jackets, scarves, and slinky evening wear dashing enough to stop air traffic, Hilary Swank’s Earhart doesn’t so much talk as make stump speeches — even when she’s at her own breakfast table.