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Moving in “Julie & Julia”

Several months ago, I was reading through a few cooking blogs in search of a particular recipe and I stumbled upon a picture of Meryl Streep with short ruddy curls holding an uncooked chicken in the most peculiar of poses.
“That’s odd,” I thought.  “She bears an almost uncanny resemblance to Julia Child…”
I read on and [...]

“The Hangover” offers good, not-so-clean fun

Who doesn’t love a good buddy comedy? Though they may never win an Oscar or change the world, buddy comedies can makes us laugh and forget our problems for an hour and half.
“The Hangover,” the latest offering from master of the genre, Todd Phillips (Road Trip, Starsky & Hutch, Old School), does just that. The [...]

“Star Trek” impresses even skeptics

Let me be the first to scream it from a mountaintop: I am not a Trekkie, and I don’t know anything about any of Star Trek’s incarnations except that the Borg are bad and William Shatner is as campy back in the original 1960s series as he is now.
But when I was finally persuaded to [...]