Reviewer’s grade: C- Alas, a wonderfully tasteless premise and a talented cast mean little without a killer instinct. The comedy sets up some irresistible targets, but what promises to be a bloodletting winds up as little more than a manicure. Zach Braff stars as Tom Reilly, whose inability to hold down a job leads him […]
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Art museum displays two new collections
anding collections, and it’s really a rare opportunity to see both works exhibited on the scale that we’re showing them,” said Alison Amick, associate curator. “To celebrate the centennial, we’re pulling out our best and trying to make the public aware of these great treasures we have.” Both exhibitions “? “Breaking the Mold: Selections from […]
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Little Children
MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt”> Specifically, the film “? adapted from Tom Perrotta’s novel “? delves into the attraction between two stay-at-home parents, though not married to each other: Sarah (Kate Winslet) is unsatisfied in her marriage to an older man addicted to online pornography, while Brad (Patrick Wilson) is a pretty boy who feels […]
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America’s Town
In March, the owner of Di’s Diner in Bulls Gap, Tenn., reported that a “blond, heavy-framed female” tried to take out a catfish dinner without paying for it and that when confronted, the woman got angry and threw money at the cash register. When the owner followed her into the parking lot, the woman threw […]
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The Classic Middle Name (all new)
Arrested recently and awaiting trial for murder: Gary Wayne Ray Jr. (Oklahoma City, February); Larry Wayne Brigman (St. Paul, Minn., charged in February for a 1989 murder, but already in prison for a different murder); Lewis Wayne Fielder Jr. (Laurens, S.C., February); Robert Wayne Wyant (Charlottesville, Va., February). Confessed to murder: Timothy Wayne Shepherd (Houston, […]
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Least Competent Criminals
South Carolina Highway Patrol officers arrested Howard Fisher, 54, in March and seized 43 pounds of marijuana from his car, after he for some reason was unable to avoid crashing into one of their cruisers, with which they had blocked two lanes of Interstate 95 while investigating accidents. Three men, allegedly carrying $4,000 worth of […]
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People Different From Us
Officials in Apex, N.C., finally confiscated the 80 sheep that David Watts had long been keeping in his home as pets (he slept upstairs, they downstairs), with the final straw coming when some of the sheep wandered into the local cemetery and munched on fresh floral arrangements. The town had apparently tolerated Watts’s eccentricity for […]
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28 Weeks Later
Reviewer’s grade: A- What a difference five years makes. I wasn’t a fan of Danny Boyle’s 2002 sleeper smash “28 Days Later,” and not because I was against the then-novel idea of fast-moving zombies. I simply found the second half to be an utter bore following an enticing setup; its purposeful murky look made […]
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Family Values
In Bridgeport, Conn., in March, Fermin Rodriguez, 21, was charged with assault for stabbing his wife several times (after an argument over her alleged infidelity); police said that following his attack, he apparently handed his knife to the couple’s 2-year-old son and said, “Now, you stab Mommy.” According to the manager of BJ’s Pawn Shop […]
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Unclear on the Concept
The Scandia Family Fun Center, which operates a super thrill ride (168 feet high, spinning at 60 miles an hour, pulling 3.5 g’s) called the Screamer, in Sacramento, Calif., decided in March that because of neighborhood residents’ noise complaints, riders would be prohibited from screaming (and subject to ejection from the park). The latest National […]