Month: June 2002

If you haven’t seen much of Paul Westerberg the past few years, it was on purpose. Our favorite native son took advantage of newfound fatherhood and his separation from his label after the underperformance of 1999’s Suicaine Gratification to immerse himself in the role of hermit. “I want to be mysterious,” he’s said. From all…

The late-80s bloom of radio-friendly female folkies came and went, as did the Lilith Fair phenomenon. But the Atlanta duo of Emily Saliers and Amy Ray hasn’t faded away. Their gift for hook-laden harmonies is part of the reason, but most of the credit for the Girls’ longevity is due to the fact that they’re…

If sweetness were a crime, then this movie would be a capital offense. Lucky for us that’s not the case. This movie is one of the most delightful and hope-filled creations to grace the big screen in years. Perhaps that’s because Audrey Tautou is as resplendent, charming, and beautiful as her namesake, Audrey Hepburn. Or…

There are two types of M*A*S*H fans: those who enjoyed the entire 11-year run, watching the rotating cast develop from two-dimensional joke machines to nuanced, complicated characters, and those who enjoyed the first three seasons (the Henry Blake-Frank Burns years) for its farcical tone and rapid-fire verbal jousting. The latter crowd abandoned the show when…

Writer-director Wes Anderson’s third feature film, The Royal Tenenbaums, is set in New York. That is, the enchanting New York of post-World War II, of glamorous old hotels, of The New Yorker in its prime. Gene Hackman plays Royal Tenenbaum, an absentee father who attempts to reinsert himself into his family by faking terminal illness.…

I realized this weekend, with a sense of horror and shame, that I don’t know a damn thing about the world I live in, and I just can’t go on like this. So I did some searching around on the web, and I came across some advice from a soldier in Kandahar who says that…