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In films
For intellectuals, job searches are never easy, but in the 1930s fleeing European Jewish academics had a terrible time finding positions at anti-Semitic American universities. The Depression was in full swing and jobs were scarce at the urban northern schools. In one of those wonderfully peculiar twists of historical fate, many of the refugees finally […]
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The Pledge
Sean Penn directed this Jack Nicholson vehicle about detective Jerry Black (Nicholson), who, on the eve of his retirement, promises the mother of a murdered young girl that he’ll catch the killer. When Black refuses to believe the forced confession of a simple-minded suspect (Benicio Del Toro), his old colleagues on the force see him […]
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In clay
It’s not often you get a chance to see a retrospective exhibit for an artist who is still alive and working. This week, not only will five decades of Edna Arnow‘s pottery be on display at Claymakers Gallery, but the 80-year-old potter herself will be lecturing on her influences on Jan. 14 at 3 p.m. […]
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In musicals
Perhaps only a reporter could have created the character of Chicago‘s Roxie Hart, a fame-hungry nightclub dancer who kills her lover, then convinces her husband to pay for Chicago’s best defense lawyer to plead her case. When the lawyer, Bill Flynn, helps her crime of passion make celebrity headlines, Hart gets the fame she always […]
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State and Main
Garnering comparisons to the classic madcap comedies of Preston Sturges, David Mamet’s latest offering concerns a film company with a dwindling budget that decides to move its shoot to a small Vermont town. Of course, everyone from the local thespians to the town socialites decide to make the most of production and mingle with the […]
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Traffic
Director Steve Soderbergh’s color-saturated, fast-paced thriller takes a realistic look at the war on drugs and inadvertantly exposes the utter futility of declaring any winners. Taking off from prime-time television and shows such as COPS and America’s Most Wanted, Soderbergh tackles the drug problem from all angles in a series of interrelated stories. The film […]
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Venus Beauty Institute
“Beauty is truth and truth beauty,” wrote ode-master John Keats. The poet obviously never stepped foot in a salon. Truth is about the farthest thing from beauty in Venus Beauty Institute, a tale about four lovely women who make their living at a Parisian spa. Written and directed by Tonie Marshall, the movie swept all […]
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Bestsellers
Hardcover 1Not Afraid of Flavor, by Ben and Karen Barker (UNC Press, $29.95). Owners and chefs of Durham’s award-winning Magnolia Grill restaurant share recipes. 2Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins, $26). Three stories and their characters come to terms with nature in three different ways. 3Roses Are Red, by James Patterson (Little Brown, $26.95). In […]
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Chocolat
Director Lasse Halstrom (My Life as a Dog) takes us to a sleepy French village circa 1959, where the townspeople have grown accustomed to a life with little change. But when the delectable Vianne (Juliette Binoche) opens a shop filled with beautifully made, mouth-watering sweets, she exposes the town to a world of pleasure and […]
