SCENE THE FIRST Early winter, 1968. 26 Ranger Road, Dumont, New Jersey GLENN KENNY, nine years old, is sitting at the dining room table, poring over the Grove Press "film…
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At one point during his excellent commentary for the New Yorker Video edition of Robert Bresson's L'Argent, my friend Kent Jones takes a minute or two to lambaste what he…
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Not for anything, but I would have been delighted if, after stating "and he of course accepts Reverend Jackson's apology," Barack Obama spokesperson Bill Burton had added, "but on the…
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You know, the thing about owning a good-quality flatscreen plasma television is, you'll watch pretty much any damn thing on it, particularly if it's in high definition. Sigh.
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James McAvoy, no longer "ordinary and pathetic," in Wanted. I understand one usually has to wait for the third occurrence of something in order to speculate about that something becoming…
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Let it never be said that I am the sole member of the Kenny household who gets wound up over certain movie writers/writing. Somehow, My Lovely Wife has gotten herself…
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