November 2nd, 2007
A Rock Star’s Damaged Soul
Washington Post - Watching “Control,” a grim, spare account of the quick success and even quicker suicide of Ian Curtis , the frontman and songwriter for late-1970s post-punk band Joy Division , we contemplate all that humankind strives for: success, happiness, love. And
Bumbling ‘Bee Movie’ Needs More of Jerry
Washington Post - And we’re even more befuddled by the love connection that springs up between Barry and a human florist called Vanessa (voice of Ren e Zellweger). Jer, you’re a bee. Why would you become smitten with a human? Putting dumb logic aside, when do we
A Punk Temple Reborn: Would You Care to See the $200 Safety Pins?
Washington Post - Kray notices a shelf with a sweater of horizontal stripes that looks uncannily like the one that he has on. Except that the one in the store is made of cashmere and costs $495. “But someone put a lot of love into that sweater,” Kray says, sounding
Bonds: Hall a No Go if Ball Has Asterisk
Forbes - No one’s going to take the love of that city of me away, ever.” Bonds, who has 762 homers, broke Aaron’s record with a shot into the right-center seats off Washington Nationals pitcher Mike Bacsik at San Francisco on Aug. 7. Matt Murphy, a 21-year-old
Caritas has a plan, is open to talks
Boston Globe - I’d love to save it, but if you can’t save it, what’s the reality of the situation?” he said. The Globe reported last week that an internal Caritas Christi budget planning memo said Carney Hospital would be “insolvent” without a $6.7 million cash
SYSTEMIC SIMPLETONS RUINING TV
New York Post - Start to end, Monday night, ESPN used up so much love on Brett Favre - if it’s worth doing, ESPN always will overdo it - that there was none left for anyone else. Late in the first quarter, a Favre TD pass left the back judge side-swiped, down and in
Nothing to Laugh About
Washington Post - A Love Story . The movie, a scruffy, junky, rusted, broken washtub of a story, follows as wristcutter Zia (Patrick Fugit, who got a big break in 2000’s “Almost Famous” and no breaks since) searches for his recently self-snuffed girlfriend, Desiree
Torre Has 13 Million Reasons to Love LA
FOX News - LOS ANGELES Joe Torre was an immediate success with the New York Yankees, managing them to four World Series titles in his first five years on the job. The Los Angeles Dodgers can only hope for similar results. Torre, who grew up in Brooklyn
‘American Gangster’: A Direct Hit
Washington Post - He makes sense of a man who could move his mother into a mansion and love the joy on her face, and yet coldly place a Browning 9mm against a competitor’s forehead and reply to the question “What are you going to do, Frank, shoot me in front of all