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    Articles by Melissa Anderson
    KST in her adulterous prime.
    Leaving: Kristin Scott Thomas Falls for a Boy-Toy
    By Melissa Anderson • November 30, 2010 12:00 am

    In her recent English-speaking roles, 50-year-old, bilingual Kristin Scott Thomas has gamely endured the fate of most actresses her age,…

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    Kings of Pastry: Made With Real Butter
    Kings of Pastry: Made With Real Butter
    By Melissa Anderson • November 23, 2010 12:00 am

    Recording a three-day competition in Lyon, France, in which sugar is molded into rococo shapes, Kings of Pastry has none…

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    Crowe and Banks on the lam.
    The Next Three Days: Russell Crowe Breaks Into...
    By Melissa Anderson • November 16, 2010 12:00 am

    “What if we choose to exist solely in a reality of our own making?” asks Pittsburgh community-college lit professor John…

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    Surprisingly, Silda Wall Spitzer didn't divorce her husband.
    Client 9: The Governor and the Hooker
    By Melissa Anderson • November 16, 2010 12:00 am

    The usually silver-tongued Eliot Spitzer, political hero of the recent Inside Job and now ubiquitous media personality, stammers and hesitates…

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    Ackerley and his best friend.
    My Dog Tulip: You’ll Woof, You’ll Wag, You’ll...
    By Melissa Anderson • November 2, 2010 12:00 am

    The antithesis of both Marley & Me cuddliness and Cesar Millan militance, J.R. Ackerley’s 1956 memoir about his recalcitrant German…

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    Thandie Newton is one of Perry's Girls.
    For Colored Girls: Ntozake Shange Gets Mangled Onscreen
    By Melissa Anderson • November 2, 2010 12:00 am

    It’s a long, long way from the women’s bar outside Berkeley, Calif., where Ntozake Shange first presented her combustible choreopoem…

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    Rapace will not be back for the American remake.
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest: Part...
    By Melissa Anderson • October 26, 2010 12:00 am

    When we first see bi computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) in the final adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy,…

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    Jones (left) and Dickler as estranged sibs.
    Douchebag: Bros Before Hos
    By Melissa Anderson • October 26, 2010 12:00 am

    Sam Nussbaum (Andrew Dickler), his Taliban-length beard an extension of his mullah-like self-righteousness about organic produce and bicycling, is about…

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    Swank and Rockwell as sibs divided.
    Conviction: Hilary Swank Demands Another Oscar!
    By Melissa Anderson • October 19, 2010 12:00 am

     After Fox Searchlight’s Amelia spectacularly flamed out last October, the studio’s trying again to grab awards-season honors with another biopic…

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    Yes, Gates is a fan of charter schools.
    Waiting for Superman: Bill Gates Joins the Charter-School...
    By Melissa Anderson • September 28, 2010 12:00 am

    Davis Guggenheim’s call-to-arms documentary on the failures of the U.S. public-education system—thoroughly laudable in intention if maddening in its logic…

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    Wake us up when Paradis is over.
    Heartbreaker: Handsome French Actors in a Vacuum
    By Melissa Anderson • September 21, 2010 12:00 am

    For the past half-decade, Romain Duris has been French cinema’s go-to brooder. Diversifying his saturnine handsomeness, Duris gives his artfully…

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    Stone shows talent the movie doesn't quite fulfill.
    Easy A: Emma Stone’s Got Talent
    By Melissa Anderson • September 14, 2010 12:00 am

    As far as teen comedies informed by 10th-grade English syllabi go, Easy A, partly inspired by The Scarlet Letter, is…

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    Any movie that contains Patricia Clarkson can't be all bad, right?
    Legendary: Why, Patricia Clarkson, Why?
    By Melissa Anderson • September 7, 2010 12:00 am

    “Oklahoma—they call it the ‘Sooner State,’” narrates Danny Glover, playing a fisherman/Magical Negro, at the beginning of the latest project…

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    The artist in his youthful prime.
    Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child: Live Fast, Die...
    By Melissa Anderson • August 3, 2010 12:00 am

    International art star by 23, dead from a heroin overdose at 27, Jean-Michel Basquiat was drawn, in the words of…

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    One of the rare news photos from the riot and arrests.
    Stonewall Uprising: An Important Event, Awkwardly Remembered
    By Melissa Anderson • July 27, 2010 12:00 am

    In the early-morning hours of Saturday, June 28, 1969, at a dive at 53 Christopher Street in New York City,…

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    Bratt as the hard-ass father.
    La Mission: Benjamin Bratt Reconsiders His Macho
    By Melissa Anderson • July 13, 2010 12:00 am

    Watered-down Jungian analysis meets a GLAAD-approved weepie in Peter Bratt’s second feature, starring brother Benjamin (who also produces) as a…

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    No attachments? Watts and Samuel L. Jackson.
    Mother and Child: Naomi Watts Demands a Baby,...
    By Melissa Anderson • May 18, 2010 12:00 am

    Rodrigo Garcia has admirably distinguished himself through his commitment to creating intelligent roles for his heavily distaff casts. Like his…

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    Queen Latifah relives her Living Single sitcom.
    Just Wright: Queen Latifah Takes Her Career Back...
    By Melissa Anderson • May 11, 2010 12:00 am

    Another movie, not as awful as this one, might one day find better use for the easygoing vibe between Queen…

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    Van der Boom leads men astray.
    The Square: Noir From Down Under
    By Melissa Anderson • April 20, 2010 12:00 am

    Indebted to The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Square fails to raise (James M.) Cain. The feature-helming debut of stuntman…

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    Garcia (center) and his clan.
    City Island: Andy Garcia Channels His Inner Brando
    By Melissa Anderson • April 6, 2010 12:00 am

    Everyone in the Rizzo family has something to hide: Paterfamilias Vince (Andy Garcia) works as a corrections officer, but sneaks…

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