Sarah Palin, the surprise pick for vice president on the Republican ticket this year, has been the subject of much frantic digging in recent days. Reporters across the country have dredged up the short record of this previously obscure figure searching for the embarrassing gaffe, sketchy kickback or dark family secret that could make sensational news.
With Keith Lockhart conducting, the evening will open with selections from Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux (Catalogue of Birds, for non-French speakers).
I'm intrigued when a movie tears me between thinking "Wow, they made a lot out of a little," and "Wow, for such great filmmakers and such a great cast, they didn't end up with much."
By Sarah CustenThe best part about Utah8212;the thing that a lot of outsiders may not know8212;is that it is truly unlike anywhere else. It's unique, it's maybe even a bit freaky, and Gilgal Sculpture...
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"Everybody Wants to be Italian" is the mixed-up tale of a Polish fishmonger living and working in Boston's Italian North End who can't get over a relationship that ended eight years ago. Couple that with his Italian coworkers trying to set him up with a lady who they believe is Italian (which in turn convinces him to act and be Italian to impress her) and you can see that multi-ethnic and Freudian humor will be rife
I want a romantic comedy that is both funny and romantic, while avoiding altogether the obligatory stereotypes, the clichés and the predictable plot lines which have been recycled and reshaped for too many years. That's all I want. Can't I have that? Jason Todd Ipson's film "Everybody Wants to Be Italian" makes a noteworthy attempt to give me what I know I can't have, but ends up falling into the unavoidable trap of standard genre filmmaking.
