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<title>Crowe, DiCaprio Clash In Tale of Spies And &#x27;Lies&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Leonardo DiCaprio, as a CIA field agent, clashes with his spymaster, Russell Crowe, over methods and morals. Ridley Scott's direction is crisp, but this thriller is all surface, no intel.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Ashes Of Time Redux&#x27;: Sumptuous All Over Again</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95558019&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1008</link>
<description><![CDATA[A leaner, more linear version of a 1994 drama from cult director Wong Kar-wai; entrancingly atmospheric, emotionally elusive and saturated with colors so vivid as to verge on the psychedelic. (Recommended).]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Breakfast&#x27; Order: Life Lessons, With A Side Of Nice</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95576468&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1008</link>
<description><![CDATA[A sports-mad gay couple doesn't quite know how to cope with the flamboyant boy they end up foster-parenting. Laurie Lynd's cozy comedy aims to say a thing or two about tolerance &mdash; without forgetting the laughs.]]></description>
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<title>French Novelist Awarded Nobel Literature Prize</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95567825&#x26;ft=1&#x26;f=1008</link>
<description><![CDATA[French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature. Antoine Compagnon, a professor of French Literature at Columbia University, says there are two periods in Le Clezio's work: it was more experimental in the 1960s and '70s, and later it featured traveling and exoticism.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/13conn.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Connections: The Power of Political Pratfalls</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/13conn.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A bumbling president, a rube candidate, a greedy politician — such are the caricatures of political life. Whether accurate or not, they can be more powerful than any argument.    
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<title>U.S. Refuge for Singer Fleeing the Taliban</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/music/13bach.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A hostile cultural climate forced Haroon Bacha, a Pashtun musician, to leave his homeland and come to New York.    
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<title>Television Review | &#x27;My Own Worst Enemy&#x27;: Jekyll and Hyde, With a Dash of James Bond</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/television/13stan.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Most people sometimes wake up on the wrong side of bed. The hero of “My Own Worst Enemy” on NBC wakes up on the wrong side of his brain.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/design/13tulo.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>In Modern China, &#x2018;Little Kingdoms&#x2019; for the People</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/design/13tulo.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A new exhibition offers further evidence that China has become the most fertile territory on the globe for experimentation by architects.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/books/13masl.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Books of The Times: Two Kindred Souls, Working Side by Side</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/books/13masl.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[“The Brass Verdict” has the sneaky metabolism of any Michael Connelly book.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/music/13prin.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Music Review | Prince: Rocking and Acknowledging Signs o&#x2019; the Times</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/music/13prin.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A familiar if rare indulgence was available in the rooftop loft at the Hotel Gansevoort in the meatpacking district: a concert by Prince.    
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<title>Back to 1992: Revisiting the Clinton &#x2018;War Room&#x2019;</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/television/13war.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The directors Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker call their new documentary “The Return of the War Room.” But the political strategists who inhabited that fabled room never really left.    
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<title>Critics&#x2019; Choice: New CDs</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/music/13choi.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[New releases from Rise Against, Lucinda Williams and Rudresh Mahanthappa.    
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<title>Dance Review | San Francisco Ballet: Chivalry and Suspense in a Balanchine Ballet</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/dance/13gold.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[San Francisco Ballet’s strongest quarter-century — in which it has ascended from being one of America’s foremost troupes to one of the world’s — has been its most recent.    
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<title>&#x2018;Chihuahua&#x2019; Is Top Draw at Box Office</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/movies/13box.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A picture about talking dogs, “Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” trampled Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe at the weekend box office.    
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<title>Theater Review | &#x27;The Atheist&#x27;: Scoops, Not Scruples, for Trustless Newshound</title>
<link>http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/theater/reviews/13athe.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Journalists reeling from the continuing contraction in the news business might get a little tongue-in-cheek cheer from “The Atheist,” a new solo play by Ronan Noone.    
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<title>Dance Review | dre.dance: Party Guests With Jazzy Moves and Political Leanings</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/dance/13dre.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Dre.dance’s hourlong show with a political theme was both less successful than the company’s previous ventures and more intriguing.    
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<title>Music Review | Yundi Li: A Little Sturm und Drang Leavens the Usual Pianism</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/music/13yund.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Chinese pianist Yundi Li, 26, may not be as sensationally popular as Lang Lang, his countryman of the same age. But in recent years Mr. Li’s career has taken off impressively.    
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<title>Music Review | Judy Collins: A Writer and a Muse</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/music/13coll.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The music of Judy Collins has so many aspects that any survey of her nearly-50-year career as a singer-songwriter confronts you with what might seem like multiple personalities.    
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<title>Television Review | &#x27;The Last Lynching&#x27;: In the Bad Old Days, Not So Very Long Ago</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/television/13lynch.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[We’re often reminded of Faulkner’s aphorism: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” It truly applies in the case of “The Last Lynching.”    
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<title>It&#x2019;s Easy to Find Tina Fey on TV, but Not Her Show</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/business/media/13fey.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[With Ms. Fey about the hottest name in show business right now, several NBC executives have asked why her show “30 Rock” won’t be on air until Oct. 30.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/crosswords/bridge/13card.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Bridge: Three American Teams Fall at Beijing Event</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/crosswords/bridge/13card.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[At the World Mind Sports Games, the United States open team lost to Poland by 127 international match points.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/television/13arts-MCCAINRESCHE_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Arts, Briefly: McCain Reschedules With Letterman</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/television/13arts-MCCAINRESCHE_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Senator John McCain has agreed to appear on David Letterman’s “Late Show” on CBS, according to the show’s Web site.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: A Bollywood Star Is Hospitalized</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/movies/13arts-ABOLLYWOODST_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai for acute abdominal pain, Agence France-Presse reported.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Elvis Costello Sings With Fall Out Boy</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/music/13arts-ELVISCOSTELL_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Web site absolutepunk.net reported an unlikely collaboration on Saturday: Elvis Costello is singing on the new album by the pop-punk band Fall Out Boy.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Election Season Sounds</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/13arts-ELECTIONSEAS_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The BBC reported that the music producer and rapper Pharrell Williams made a surprise appearance onstage with Madonna.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Footnotes</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/13arts-FOOTNOTES_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[M. John Richard has been selected as the new president and chief executive of the two-year-old Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.    
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<title>Vince Aletti: Gilbert &#x26;#38; George, at the Brooklyn Museum.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/10/20/081020gonb_GOAT_notebook_aletti</link>
<description><![CDATA[The world of Gilbert &#38; George, now on gaudy, overwhelming display at the Brooklyn Museum, revolves around the artists themselves, a pair of Brits dressed in conservative suits--or in nothing at all. On the evidence of some hundred photographs and drawings made between 1970 and 2006, the couple&#8217;s work, which&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Louis Menand: Is texting here to stay?</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/10/20/081020crbo_books_menand</link>
<description><![CDATA[Is texting bringing us closer to the end of life as we currently tolerate it? Enough people have suggested that it is to have inspired David Crystal to produce &#8220;Txtng: The Gr8 Db8&#8221; (Oxford; &#36;19.95). &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I have ever come across a topic which has attracted more&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>John Lahr: Martyrdom and marriage onstage.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2008/10/20/081020crth_theatre_lahr</link>
<description><![CDATA[In Robert Bolt&#8217;s 1960 hit &#8220;A Man for All Seasons&#8221; (now in a Roundabout Theatre Company revival, at the American Airlines, under the direction of Doug Hughes), Cardinal Wolsey (Dakin Matthews) asks Sir Thomas More (Frank Langella) a question that is meant to wrong-foot him. &#8220;Take you altogether, Thomas&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Jill Lepore: Writing campaign lives.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/10/20/081020crat_atlarge_lepore</link>
<description><![CDATA[Biographers of Andrew Jackson used to be cursed. On January 8, 1815, the General led American forces in a stunning defeat of an invading British Army, winning the Battle of New Orleans at the end of the War of 1812. With a political career in mind, he cast about for&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Jeffrey Frank: Per Petterson&#x27;s &#x22;To Siberia.&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/10/20/081020crbo_books_frank</link>
<description><![CDATA[On April 7, 1990, the ferryboat Scandinavian Star sailed from Oslo toward Frederikshavn, in the northern part of Denmark, carrying nearly five hundred passengers. The ship caught fire, and more than a hundred and fifty people perished. Four of the dead belonged to the family of the Norwegian novelist Per&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: The Theatre</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS 
        Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information.   
          
          
        ALL MY SONS 
        John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson, and Katie Holmes star in Arthur Miller&#8217;s play from 1947, about a businessman&#8217;s shady dealings during the Second World War. Simon McBurney directs. In&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART 
        Ellen Burstyn, Brian Cox, Linus Roache, and others give a dramatic reading based on the Dhammapada, a central text of Buddhism. (150 W. 17th St. 212-620-5000, ext. 344. Oct. 15 at 7.) 
          
        UNION HALL 
        Jay McInerney, Kate Christensen, and Arthur Phillips read short stories they have&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: On the Horizon</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/horizon/2008/10/20/081020gohz_GOAT_horizon</link>
<description><![CDATA[ART 
        THE LONG GOODBYE 
        Oct. 24-Feb. 1 
        The Met bids a fond farewell to its director of thirty-one years with &#8220;The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions.&#8221; The exhibition features some three hundred objects, including a sixteenth-century Islamic manuscript that illustrates &#8220;worldly and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Night Life</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/nightlife/2008/10/20/081020goni_GOAT_nightlife</link>
<description><![CDATA[ROCK AND POP 
        Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it&#8217;s advisable to call ahead to confirm engagements.  
          
          
        APOLLO THEATRE 
        253 W. 125th St. (212-531-5300)--Oct. 16: The lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons, who has a sweet and haunting voice reminiscent of Bryan Ferry&#8217;s, won a Mercury&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Movies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENING 
          
        AZUR AND ASMAR 
        Michel Ocelot directed this animated fable, set in the Middle Ages, about a man seeking his long-lost brother. Opening Oct. 17. (IFC Center.) 
          
        THE ELEPHANT KING 
        In this drama, a woman (Ellen Burstyn) sends one of her sons (Tate Ellington) to bring the other (Jonno&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Dance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE  
        Fresh from its recent coup--snapping up the Russian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky for the position of artist-in-residence--the company presents its two-week fall season at City Center, which is focussed on the British choreographer Antony Tudor, whose centennial is this year. On opening night&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Classical Music</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/classical/2008/10/20/081020gocl_GOAT_classical</link>
<description><![CDATA[OPERA 
          
        METROPOLITAN OPERA 
        Mary Zimmerman&#8217;s daring--and rewarding--new production of &#8220;Lucia di Lammermoor&#8221; stars Diana Damrau (in the title role), along with Piotr Beczala, Vladimir Stoyanov, and Ildar Abdrazakov; Marco Armiliato, the Met&#8217;s reliable Italian hand, is on the podium. (Oct. 15 at 8 and Oct. 18 at 8:30&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Art</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/2008/10/20/081020goar_GOAT_art</link>
<description><![CDATA[MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES 
          
        METROPOLITAN MUSEUM 
        Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--&#8220;Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964.&#8221; Through Dec. 14. |  &#8220;Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717).&#8221; Through Jan. 4. |  &#8220;Royal Porcelain from the Twinight Collection: 1800-1850.&#8221; Through April 19. |  &#8220;Jeff Koons on the Roof.&#8221; Through Oct. 26. | &#8220;Rhythms of&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/above/2008/10/20/081020goab_GOAT_above</link>
<description><![CDATA[HAROLD CLURMAN FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS 
        The Stella Adler Studio of Acting&#8217;s annual gathering gets under way on Oct. 17, with a symposium at Cooper Union&#8217;s Great Hall (7 E. 7th St.) about art and social activism in Africa, featuring Winter Miller, John Prendergast, Nima Elbagir, and others. It is&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Elizabeth Kolbert: Emily Post, at home.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/10/20/081020crbo_books_kolbert</link>
<description><![CDATA[New York&#8217;s moneyed class has always loved to read about itself. In the early years of the twentieth century, it particularly loved to do so in a magazine called Town Topics: The Journal of Society. Far and away the weekly&#8217;s most popular feature, titled &#8220;Saunterings,&#8221; offered material of a sort&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;The House at Sugar Beach&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/20/081020crbn_brieflynoted3</link>
<description><![CDATA[Cooper is a descendant of the Congo People--the &#233;lite who once governed Liberia--and can trace her ancestry to the freed American slaves who colonized the country in the eighteen-hundreds. In 1980, she and her family fled Monrovia following a coup; her mother was raped and, on her&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;The English Major&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/20/081020crbn_brieflynoted2</link>
<description><![CDATA[The protagonist of this wistfully comic novel is a sixty-year-old English teacher turned farmer, whose wife has left him for another man, and who takes to the road in the quixotic pursuit of renaming all the birds and all the states. Along the way, he picks up a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;The Elegance of the Hedgehog&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/20/081020crbn_brieflynoted1</link>
<description><![CDATA[In this supple novel of ideas, a best-seller in France, the unschooled middle-aged concierge of an upper-class Paris apartment building acts like a stereotypical concierge, leaving the television on all day and sharing her quarters with an old, fat cat, but she secretly consumes vast quantities of&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;Antoine&#x26;#8217;s Alphabet: Watteau and His World&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/20/081020crbn_brieflynoted4</link>
<description><![CDATA[In 1944, Cyril Connolly, having just passed his fortieth birthday and in a melancholy mood, published &#8220;The Unquiet Grave,&#8221; a gloriously strange book of fragments, quotations, epigrams, impressions, and wartime journal entries--a kind of aesthetic autobiography--under the pseudonym Palinurus. Perl, the art critic for the New Republic, has&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Ben Greenman: Outtakes and rarities, from Bob Dylan.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/recordings/2008/10/20/081020gore_GOAT_recordings_greenman</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob Dylan&#8217;s new collection of outtakes and rarities, &#8220;Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased, 1989-2006&#8221; (Sony), is an object lesson in the oddness of modern record distribution. In addition to the basic two-disk version, which has twenty-seven songs, there is a deluxe edition that includes an extra CD&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Anthony Lane: Andrzej Wajda, at Anthology Film Archives and Lincoln Center.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/10/20/081020gonb_GOAT_notebook_lane</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is Andrzej Wajda season in New York. From Oct. 24 through Oct. 28, Anthology Film Archives is screening plays he filmed for Polish television, including a 1991 &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; with a female lead, and from Oct. 17 through Nov. 13 a complete retrospective is being mounted at Lincoln Center. One&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Anthony Lane: &#x22;Filth and Wisdom,&#x22; &#x22;RocknRolla,&#x22; and &#x22;What Just Happened?&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/10/20/081020crci_cinema_lane</link>
<description><![CDATA[There have been countless occasions on which a husband and wife have acted together onscreen. A pair of mating movie directors, however, is altogether a more exotic find, and, as for both having a film released in the same month, it&#8217;s almost unheard of. &#8220;Wanda,&#8221; for instance, Barbara Loden&#8217;s impressive&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Thomas Mallon: Abraham Lincoln and the politics of memory.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/10/13/081013crbo_books_mallon</link>
<description><![CDATA[At the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C., on May 30, 1922, remarks by Robert Moton, the principal of the Tuskegee Institute, received special attention from the &#8220;colored&#8221; section of the audience. The federal commission responsible for the memorial&#8217;s construction were loath to have Moton participate at all&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Sasha Frere-Jones: The Brazilian Girls at Terminal 5.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/10/13/081013gonb_GOAT_notebook_frerejones</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sabina Sciubba has lived in Italy, Germany, France, and New York, and is currently the lead singer of a band called Brazilian Girls, which contains no Brazilians and only one girl. The group&#8217;s third album, &#8220;New York City,&#8221; is sung in five languages, though not all simultaneously. Perhaps the most&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Richard Brody: Max Oph&#x26;#252;ls at Film Forum.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/10/13/081013gonb_GOAT_notebook_brody</link>
<description><![CDATA[The exacting and sumptuous Cin&#233;math&#232;que Fran&#231;aise restoration of &#8220;Lola Mont&#232;s,&#8221; Max Oph&#252;ls&#8217;s last film, from 1955 (opening at Film Forum on Oct. 10), recovers not just the movie&#8217;s look but also its meaning. The romantic costume drama presents a great nineteenth-century femme fatale, a faux-Spanish danseuse and gold&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>John Lahr: Ian Rickson revives &#x22;The Seagull.&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2008/10/13/081013crth_theatre_lahr</link>
<description><![CDATA[When Anton Chekhov&#8217;s &#8220;The Seagull&#8221; first opened in St. Petersburg, in October, 1896, the hubbub of catcalls was so loud that the actors had trouble hearing themselves. Recounting the play&#8217;s sensational failure--the humiliated author stopped writing plays for a few years--Chekhov wrote to a friend, &#8220;The theatre breathed&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Hilton Als: My Barbarian at the New Museum.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/10/13/081013gonb_GOAT_notebook_als</link>
<description><![CDATA[The New Museum curator Eungie Joo has a nose for talent--particularly for performers who are more likely to comment on the &#8220;legitimate&#8221; theatre than to attend it. Just recently, she reintroduced New York audiences to My Barbarian, a performance collective based in Los Angeles. Founded in 2000 by Malik&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Tony Award</title>
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<description><![CDATA[From 1974 to 1980, the immensely assured multi-instrumentalist and composer Anthony Braxton was given virtual carte blanche at Clive Davis&#8217;s Arista Records--an unlikely union of artist and corporation. Braxton was nothing if not rigorously intellectual and formally obsessed--a sonic omnivore influenced by artists as seemingly irreconcilable as&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: The Theatre</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS 
        Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information.   
          
          
        ALL MY SONS 
        John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson, and Katie Holmes star in Arthur Miller&#8217;s play from 1947, about a businessman&#8217;s shady dealings during the Second World War. Simon McBurney directs. In&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: The Other Half</title>
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<description><![CDATA[F. W. Murnau&#8217;s 1924 drama &#8220;The Last Laugh&#8221; (a new restoration of which is featured in a two-disk set from Kino) may well be the apogee of silent-film production. From its small-scale story--the aging head doorman at a grand hotel can no longer lift heavy luggage&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[POETS OUT LOUD&#8221; 
        Fordham University&#8217;s reading series presents Sarah Gambito, Myung Mi Kim, Ravi Shankar, and Kelly Tsai. (113 W. 60th St., 12th fl. No tickets necessary. Oct. 8 at 7.) 
          
        CASSANDRA WILSON 
        The jazz vocalist talks about her career with the critic Gary Giddins. (City University of New York&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: On the Horizon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[DANCE 
        TUDOR HOUSE 
        Oct. 21-Nov. 2 
        This fall, American Ballet Theatre celebrates the British choreographer Antony Tudor (1909-87); on opening night, Gillian Murphy and David Hallberg will dance the pas de deux from his one-act &#8220;Romeo and Juliet.&#8221; (212-581-1212.) 
          
        MOVIES 
        INSIDE AND OUT 
        Oct. 31-Nov. 5 
        The&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Night Life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ROCK AND POP 
        Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it&#8217;s advisable to call ahead to confirm engagements.  
          
          
        B. B. KING BLUES CLUB &#38; GRILL 
        237 W. 42nd St. (212-997-4144)--Oct. 8: In the early nineties, Digable Planets forged a fusion of jazz and hip-hop that sounded to some&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Mutton Doing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[People who call Lambchop a country band should probably stop. While the group&#8217;s earlier albums, like &#8220;Nixon,&#8221; were firmly within the countrypolitan tradition--mid-tempo epics strategically overproduced with lavish strings and horns--the music made these days by the singer and songwriter Kurt Wagner and his ensemble of adjustable&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Movies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENING 
          
        ASHES OF TIME REDUX 
        The director Wong Kar-Wai&#8217;s reworking of his 1994 adaptation of a martial-arts novel, starring Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, and Tony Leung Ka Fai. In Cantonese. Opening Oct. 10. (Angelika Film Center and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.) 
          
        BODY OF LIES 
        Reviewed&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Dance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BALLET HISPANICO  
        The company&#8217;s two-week season at the Joyce is the last with its pioneering founder, Tina Ramirez, as artistic director. To cap off her estimable tenure of nearly forty years, she takes the stage for a small role in Graciela Daniele&#8217;s &#8220;Stages.&#8221; The first week also includes the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Classical Music</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPERA 
          
        METROPOLITAN OPERA 
        Last season&#8217;s opening-night attraction was Mary Zimmerman&#8217;s new production of &#8220;Lucia di Lammermoor,&#8221; whose combination of fantasy and verisimilitude delighted the daring but left traditionalists unmoved. Diana Damrau (who could definitely give 2007&#8217;s Lucia, Natalie Dessay, a run for her money) takes the title role&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Art</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES  
          
        METROPOLITAN MUSEUM  
        Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--&#8220;Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964.&#8221; The first-ever American retrospective of the Italian modern master is the sleeper hit of the season. Morandi&#8217;s still-lifes, each an adventure, are unbeatably radical meditations on what can and can&#8217;t happen when three dimensions&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond</title>
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<description><![CDATA[HARVEST TIME 
        With the price of gas being what it is, a quick trip to the country for, say, a Halloween pumpkin and some fresh air requires much consideration. So what&#8217;s an urbanite to do? Head to the Queens County Farm Museum, the oldest patch of continuously farmed land in&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>David Denby: &#x22;Body of Lies&#x22; and &#x22;Happy-Go-Lucky.&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/10/13/081013crci_cinema_denby</link>
<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a startling moment in &#8220;Body of Lies,&#8221; the potent new thriller directed by Ridley Scott--a moment that not only crystallizes what the movie is about but shrewdly demonstrates the ironies of asymmetrical warfare in the age of terror. The hardworking C.I.A. field agent Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) has&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;The Snowball&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/13/081013crbn_brieflynoted1</link>
<description><![CDATA[This authorized biography of Warren Buffett, based on thousands of hours of interviews, appears just a week after Buffett took a decisive role in the current financial crisis, investing some five billion dollars in Goldman Sachs--a deal that conforms to his maxim &#8220;Be fearful when others are greedy and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/13/081013crbn_brieflynoted4</link>
<description><![CDATA[The journal of the Quaker mystic and abolitionist John Woolman has never been out of print since 1774, when it was first published. Along with Woolman&#8217;s pamphlets and speeches, the journal was instrumental in persuading the Society of Friends to give up owning slaves. In this meditative biography, Slaughter provides&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/13/081013crbn_brieflynoted3</link>
<description><![CDATA[Attempting to explain &#8220;why Americans vote the way they do,&#8221; Gelman and a group of fellow political scientists crunch numbers and draw graphs, arriving at a picture that refutes the influential one drawn by Thomas Frank, in &#8220;What&#8217;s the Matter with Kansas?,&#8221; of poor red-staters voting Republican against their&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;Capitol Men&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/13/081013crbn_brieflynoted2</link>
<description><![CDATA[During Reconstruction, sixteen black men served as congressmen. They have been scorned as bumbling, corrupt, or ineffectual--former field hands in shiny suits--and even the growing recognition, in recent years, of the shamefulness of the North&#8217;s abandonment of Reconstruction has not entirely effaced that caricature. Dray&#8217;s book should do&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Alex Ross: Stockhausen&#x27;s &#x22;Gruppen,&#x22; at Tempelhof Airport, in Berlin.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2008/10/13/081013crmu_music_ross</link>
<description><![CDATA[For a few years in the late nineteen-sixties and early seventies, Karlheinz Stockhausen, the German avant-garde composer, nearly achieved the status of a pop icon. Each new piece of his attracted crowds of critics, struggling to convey the latest cosmic splatter of pointillistically variegated sounds. A lavish recording&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>John Lahr: The mystery plays of Sarah Ruhl and Peter Shaffer.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2008/10/06/081006crth_theatre_lahr</link>
<description><![CDATA[In 1997, as the playwright Sarah Ruhl was on her way to see the first work of hers to be produced, she was knocked unconscious in a car accident. Nonetheless, she managed to get to the show--two short plays that now, with the addition of a third, make up&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: On the Horizon</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/horizon/2008/10/06/081006gohz_GOAT_horizon</link>
<description><![CDATA[AUCTIONS 
        STRINGS ATTACHED 
        Oct. 10 
        Martin Guitar--a storied brand in the history of blues and rock--is a hundred and seventy-five years old, and Christie&#8217;s is marking the anniversary by offering forty-nine of the company&#8217;s guitars at its upcoming sale of musical instruments. (212-636-2000.) 
          
        MOVIES 
        POLAND, SPRUNG&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>David Denby: New Wave at BAM.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/10/06/081006gonb_GOAT_notebook_denby</link>
<description><![CDATA[The compilation film &#8220;Six in Paris&#8221; (&#8220;Paris Vu Par . . .&#8221;), from 1965, screening at BAM Oct. 3-9, is a not terribly distinguished but nonetheless happy souvenir of the New Wave, when films could be thrown together casually. Six directors, three established (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Rouch, and Claude Chabrol), one starting&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;Unpacking the Boxes&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/06/081006crbn_brieflynoted4</link>
<description><![CDATA[Most memoirs begin with a birth, but Hall&#8217;s starts with another sort of becoming: &#8220;At fourteen I decided to spend my life writing poetry, which is what I have done.&#8221; Soon Hall moves from suburban Connecticut, where &#8220;nothing happened,&#8221; to Exeter, Harvard, and Oxford, his time line marked indelibly by&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: &#x22;The Given Day&#x22;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/06/081006crbn_brieflynoted1</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lehane, whose previous novels include &#8220;Mystic River&#8221; and &#8220;Gone, Baby, Gone,&#8221; sets his latest at the end of the First World War, as waves of immigration, uneasy race relations, and agitation over labor issues culminate in a police strike in Boston. Danny, a patrolman and the son of a powerful&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Will downturn hit Hollywood?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This high-speed spy movie pits the CIA against Middle Eastern jihadists but resembles a trailer of itself.

   
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<description><![CDATA[A 'delicious' Latin music mix, quilts that qualify as art, the Iditarod from the comfort of your sofa, and more.

   
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<description><![CDATA[Downtown L.A.'s cultural corridor struggles to define its profile and its audience.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Nick and Norah&#x27;s Infinite Playlist&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael Cera stars in this teen love story that alternates between sweet and touching and goofball gross-out.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Blindness&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Set in a city where people are suddenly stricken with sightlessness, allegory never rises to level of believability.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Rachel Getting Married&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wrenching family drama puts Anne Hathaway center stage as an emotional wreck who creates havoc at her sister's nuptials.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Religulous&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bill Maher's documentary skewers religion but chooses laughable targets to make his point.

   
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<title>The white/nonwhite divide</title>
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<title>Review: &#x27;Miracle at St. Anna&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Spike Lee's retelling of World War II's black infantry draws on all the clichés.

   
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<description><![CDATA[In a plot full of glib contrivances, this home-front story of the Iraq war follows the lives of three returning vets.

   
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<description><![CDATA[Adaptation of Palahniuk novel is a dark comedy about sexual addiction and mothers and sons.

   
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<description><![CDATA[As CD sales plummet, novelty gigs win box office bump and delight audiences.

   
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