December 2010
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The Fighter and the Actor(s)
In his 12/13/2010 review of David O. Russell’s The Fighter, the New Yorker’s Anthony Lane (a critic for whom I have the utmost respect) writes the following about Christian Bale’s performance as the drug addled former boxer Dicky Eklund, the ne’er-do-well older brother and trainer of boxer “Irish” Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), “Bale is the first thing...
Dec 20th
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In which I muse on Harry Potter and Literary...
I am currently at war with my students.  Over what?  Freakin’ Harry Potter.  We’re fighting each other with wands and spells.  Okay, what’s really going on is they can’t believe that for the most part I just don’t like the movies because they are too long, they take themselves way too seriously, and they are so utterly joyless and devoid of the humor that I tend to...
Dec 13th
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“You have to study that stuff. And I don’t mean study necessarily in the...”
– One of the disadvantages of both working with kids and having kids is that I invariably get really sick at least once a year.  It’s like living in a Petri dish.  As I’m currently battling the flu, the last few days have mostly entailed me lying on the couch and catching up on my...
Dec 8th
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In which I write about Glee elsewhere... →
Even more musings on the situation with season two of Glee. 
Dec 3rd