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The Vine: August 11, 2010
August 11, 2010 – 10:25 AM | 56 Comments
The Vine: August 11, 2010

Hey Sars.
So here’s the deal. My husband and I have four kids, one on the way, and two aging beagles. Everything was great — until all of a sudden it wasn’t. Our fourth child was …

Nine
March 6, 2010 – 9:45 AM | 3 Comments

Everyone looks beautiful, the acting is good (with one semi-exception), and Nine successfully evokes Fellini, but I don’t think I see the point of the exercise, here or in the stage original. That the dialogue …

Il divo: La spettacolare vita di Giulio Andreotti
February 7, 2010 – 11:16 AM | 2 Comments
<I>Il divo: La spettacolare vita di Giulio Andreotti</I>

Facing two subtitled hours about an Italian politician I’d never heard of, merely for the sake of crossing a Best Makeup nominee off the list, I considered withdrawing from the Oscars 2010 Death Race entirely …