25. A Perfect Story Margot is an engaged hotel heiress crumbling under the weight of her family's expectations. David is a struggling bartender who sleeps on his friends' couches and can't get over a recent breakup. The unlikely pair meet at the exact moment when they each need someone ...
Co-direction by Nick Bowling and Vanessa Stalling paces the story well as it moves through more than three hours of drama, sagging a bit from too much detail in the middle. The script by Italian playwright Stefano Massini takes certain liberties with the details of the Lehman story anyway, a...
It was inspired by a Harry Styles fantasy— we were going to watch it no matter what! But Hathaway, who also produced the film, gives a simply captivating performance, elevating this crowd-pleasing romance to a complex story about a woman reinventing herself. You'll be surprised how quickly...
As an actor, I know that I’m supposed to cry on demand, but I don’t do that easily. But the last rehearsal we had [in Lagos] … there’s a scene where the main actor gives this monologue about how we as Africans have to confront stereotypes of Africans—what people see from far...
Netflix Synopsis: Survivors of a plane crash try to stay alive on a mysterious island in this series that “remains one of the best things TV has ever given us” (NYT). Why You Should Check This Out: It really is one of the best TV series ever made. The characterization, the writing...
Still, I guess I can think of some NYT/WaPo pundits where the distinction scarcely matters. I'm also familiar with leftists who are so focused on US sins they ignore or even get a bit myopic about the likes of Putin and Trump, but they rarely reduce to pro-Putin/Trump, so I don'...
A Pot of Sunny Gold in Those Green Hills FINIAN'S RAINBOW NYT Critic’s Pick Closing Date:January 17, 2010 St. James Theater, 246 W. 44th St. 866-870-2717 By CHARLES ISHERWOOD OCT. 29, 2009 / NYTimes Under the nimble direction of Warren Carlyle, who also supplies the buoyant choreogr...
Just recently, my work on risk got mentioned in a book by TEDx speaker and NYT bestseller Michele Wucker. Unless I had put all my eggs in one basket, it wouldn’t have happened. So, to write, you have to have something to say, and really ONE thing to say. You have to concentrate...
I am also puzzled by the purpose of the NYT article–It’s well written and researched. But while it tries to be nuanced and show the cooperation between pro-Tibet culture researchers with the Chinese government, it does come off as over optimistic. I doubt that someone not from the univer...
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