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Monkey See
12:23 pm
Fri September 7, 2012

Pop Culture Happy Hour: How Long Is Too Long?

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Half of the Pop Culture Happy Hour crew is scattered to the four winds — if, by "the four winds," you mean "an assortment of movie theaters in Toronto" — but before parting ways, the old gang met up to discuss a question that's been vexing me. What are the tipping points, I vex, that push various forms of entertainment over the line between "long enough" and "too long"?

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Movie Reviews
12:21 pm
Fri September 7, 2012

'Bachelorette' Sounds Dark Comedic Depths

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Party Animals: Lizzy Caplan (from left), Isla Fisher and Kirsten Dunst play the brazen bridesmaids who make trouble for bride-to-be Becky (Rebel Wilson) in Bachelorette.
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Katie (Isla Fisher), Regan (Kirsten Dunst) and Gena (Lizzy Caplan) can barely keep it together for their friend Becky's bachelorette party.
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Gena is torn up about re-encountering her high-school love, Clyde (Adam Scott, Caplan's Party Down co-star).
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Originally published on Fri September 7, 2012 12:55 pm

Long before Bridesmaids convinced studio executives that a raunchy, female-centric comedy could find a huge audience, Leslye Headland was busy adapting her play Bachelorette into a movie. So this isn't a copycat rom-com, but the themes do overlap. Each film turns on a female rivalry: In Bridesmaids, it's between the maid of honor, Kristen Wiig, and the bride's rich friend, played by Rose Byrne. In Bachelorette, the rivalry is more complicated, more ... ugly. It's between the three, 30-ish, unmarried central characters and the bride.

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Election 2012
11:37 am
Fri September 7, 2012

The 7 Coolest Presidents In American History

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President George W. Bush dances with members of the KanKouran West African Dance Company during a Rose Garden event to mark Malaria Awareness Day at the White House on April 25, 2007.
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In this 1906 image, President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) has noticeable swagger.
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President Bill Clinton plays a saxophone with Everette Harp at the Arkansas inaugural ball on Jan. 20, 1993.
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Originally published on Fri September 7, 2012 2:34 pm

When former President Bill Clinton referred to present President Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention as "cool on the outside," Clinton was underscoring the notion that Obama is, well, cool.

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The Two-Way
11:27 am
Fri September 7, 2012

Suspect Charged In 'Air Hoax,' And Victim Arrested On Unrelated Charges

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The US Air flight that was forced to return to Philadelphia on Thursday because of the hoax.
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File this under "you think you had a bad day?" and "that was a really dumb idea."

First, a plane headed from Philadelphia to Texas is turned around Thursday because someone called authorities to say a passenger was carrying a "liquid explosive."

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Monkey See
11:03 am
Fri September 7, 2012

TIFF '12: 'On The Road' Presents The Young Writer And His Travels

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Sam Riley plays Sal in the new adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On The Road.
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Originally published on Fri September 7, 2012 5:32 pm

It's perhaps a testament to my resistance to this material that I've never felt moved to read Jack Kerouac's On The Road, but I have to suspect it's better than this disappointing adaptation, or at least more interesting.

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