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Jeffrey Overstreet’s “Strongest Impressions” of 2008, Part I
I became a list-o-phile at thirteen. Every Saturday morning I recorded Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40, fascinated with the way that songs moved up and down the pop charts. When a favorite made it to the top—Prince's “When Doves Cry,” Til Tuesday's “Voices Carry,” The Thompson Twins' “Lay Your Hands on Me”—I cranked up the volume and....
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Judgment and Doubt
Be sure you get tickets for two of this month's new releases: Frost/Nixon and Doubt. Both films were adapted from celebrated stage plays by their original playwrights. Both are dramatic, intense, and powerfully acted. And you'll find that....
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A World Equal to Our Hopes
In Babette's Feast, the protagonist carries her winning lottery ticket down to the edge of the water. She could take the winnings and go home to France, leaving behind her servant's life. Staring toward the horizon, she chooses something else....
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Being Charlie Kaufman
Charlie Kaufman sits at the table in the conference room of the Hotel Monaco in downtown Seattle, bowing his head, all ten fingers in his mop of dark hair. He doesn't say anything. Neither do I. Neither do the other two journalists at the table, who are recording all this silence for an Amazon.com podcast. “I'm trying,” says Kaufman....
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The Wedding and the High Wire Act
In a photograph from her recent wedding, my friend Tara stands on one side of the empty dance floor. On the other, Bryan, her groom, leans forward in his chair. Tara is about to reach out her hand in a gesture of invitation. No doubt about it—he’s ready to respond. Their gazes are locked....
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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