Lifestyle Columns
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Stoic Moore is less in bleak, belligerent 'Blindness'Oct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Fernando Meirelles' bleak and belligerent "Blindness" begins as an M. Night Shyamalan mystery, then careens into an apocalyptical "Lord of the Flies" before crashing and...
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Dann's favorite celebrity quotesOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Thirty years of interviewing filmmakers yields a lot of great quotes. Here are my favorites: "Greed." Director Robert Altman on the greatest problem facing the motion p...
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Clichés dog silly 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua'Oct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - There's a difference between a dumb Walt Disney movie for kids, and a parody of a dumb Walt Disney movie for kids. Except in the case of "Beverly Hills Chihuahua." With ...
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FHA borrowers now pay higher fee on mortgageOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - The Federal Housing Administration is boosting the cost of its most popular loan-insurance program. The increase will cost many home buyers hundreds or even thousands of...
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Reclaimed wood has advantages, but it is also more costlyOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. We are planning an addition to our house that we want to be efficient and "green." I heard using reclaimed lumber makes sense. Is this more efficient and as stron...
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Pegg and pig funniest part of 'How to Lose Friends'Oct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Simon Pegg's great gift in "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" is his ability to take a self-centered, toxically obnoxious main character and breathe just enough w...
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'Nick & Norah' infinitely charmingOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" is a pungent, nocturnal metropolitan romantic comedy light on plot, but heavy on chemistry between its two appealing main actors. Plus...
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Screen test: Test your Dann Gire knowledgeOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - 1. He is a former fencer. 2. He tried to get a job as an undercover drug agent. 3. He and John Records Landecker hosted a movie review show, "John and Dann Go to the Mov...
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Hypocrites reinvent classic 'Our Town'Oct 01, 2008 11:00 pm - "Once in a thousand times it's interesting." Thornton Wilder's Stage Manager utters those words at the end of the second act of "Our Town" while presiding over the wedd...
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Workplace may not be place for 'revelations'Oct 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. I'm 50, divorced 10 years, put two kids through college, and have become involved with a woman. I suppose I'm gay now. My office is having an off-site at a very nice ...