Kristen Wiig cowriter and costar in "Bridesmaids"
Kristen Wiig might resemble a blade of grass in Converse sneakers, but she thwacks it like Babe Ruth. Ask how it felt to lose her screenwriting virginity, the cowriter and costar of Bridesmaids (opening Friday) first bats her lashes, then the conversational ball. "Hurt a little, but it was go-o-o-o-d."
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A prenuptial triangle yawner
Why is it that the only time we see women on screen as central characters in movies lately, they are talking diamond clarity and wedding caterers?
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‘I Am’: A quest for ways to make the world better
When a newspaper posed the question "What’s Wrong with the World?", G.K. Chesterton, novelist and theologian, reportedly answered: "I am."The implication that if you’re not putting things right then you’re part of what’s wrong inspired
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Letting a puppet do his talking
It’s hard for a nonprofessional to diagnose Walter Black, but the surname suggests his general mood. Depression isn’t the half of what’s eating him.
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Our critics’ selections
Jumping the Broom Old money and the working class clash in this buoyant film, wedding high drama with low comedy. Paula Patton is the uptown girl and Laz Alonso the Brooklyn boy whose mothers (Angela Bassett and Loretta Devine) lock horns at the wedding. PG-13
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‘Jumping the Broom’: Set-to at a family wedding
No offense Big Momma and Madea, but Jumping the Broom offers the distinction of being the first predominantly black movie this year where the leading lady isn’t a man in a housecoat.
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Farrow’s humanitarian efforts to be honored with Marian Anderson Award
BRIDGEWATER, Conn. - Mia Farrow’s home in rural Connecticut is the image of its owner: Unadorned and gently weathered on the exterior, light-filled and book-crammed within. Outside, it’s a model of Yankee simplicity; inside, Woodstock eclectic, chockablock with keepsakes of her multicultural family and her work with UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund.
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‘Cracks’: Rivalry and desire at a girls’ boarding school
St. Mathilda’s, the girls’ boarding school in Cracks, is perched on a wind-strafed Lesbos off the British coast. In this atmospheric and broody melodrama set between the wars, Di Radfield (Juno Temple) is the alpha and pet of Miss G (Eva Green), a teacher sleek and chic as an art deco hood ornament.
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Our critics’ selections
Lebanon, Pa. In Ben Hickernell’s sophomore effort, a Philly ad exec returns to his hometown and reconnects with his cousin in this poignant portrait of an unlikely friendship and a pungent contrast of urban clamor and small-town murmur. PG-13
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