A Fine Romance, My Friend, This Is
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A genre once known for high quality is now a source of lazy commercial fodder.
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The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
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Reader Reshmi Menon sends us a picture.
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Reassuringly funny and cleverly scripted, Gurinder Chadha helms a magnificent ride, the feel-good-est of recent Indian fare.
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The two have formed a mutual admiration club.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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It's nice to have a sugar daddy.
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Itâs not smutty, itâs not snide, itâs not creepyâbut what is it?
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Sometimes it's good to have friends. And competition.
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How a denim skirt wrapped me in the love of my friends.
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In some ways, one might regard the literary couples whose intimate relationships inspired Katie Roipheâs âUncommon Arrangementsâ as performance artists.
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Margins are the story, and it's got a happy ending.
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They've always been terrific co-stars. Now they're in a position where they can exchange roles Âcomfortably.
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In person, thereÂs a quality of indomitable exuberance about Sushmita Sen which renders itself well to the roles that she does.
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Belying  the   over-enthusiastic   reports  of  a marriage date for
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Lately, I have been asked if there is anything really good playing at the movies. Now I have something to rave about -- a film called &quot;Hero.
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This sweet-natured coming-of-age story manages a neat trick in our increasingly ``edge&#39;&#39;-obsessed television world: It&#39;s old-fashioned without seeming irrelevant.