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A set of curly-toed juttis signify a couple’s overweening liberalism in Away We Go, a film by writer couple Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida and director Sam Mendes. Eggers and Mendes are doyens of dysfunction, but Away is more comic than dark. It’s less a movie than a series of comic setpieces which set up grotesque characters and then puncture them. Away is about a couple esconced in a battered Volvo, searching for a city in which to settle down with their first baby on the way. John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph’s first choice is thwarted when Krasinski’s parents move to Belgium, renting out their home through ‘an elegant gentleman named Fareed.’ Jeff Daniels plays the callous dad, reprising his character from The Squid and the Whale. The couple drive to Madison, where their friend U Wisconsin prof Maggie Gyllenhaal insists they... [read full story]
Ondrej Pavelec made 40 saves for his second shutout of the season and his career to lift the Atlanta Thrashers to a 2-0 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday night Vyacheslav Kozlov had a goal and an assist, and Nik...
SEN. MARY LANDRIEU, D-LA.: I have decided there are enough significant reforms and safeguards in this bill to move forward, but much more work needs to be done. SEN. JOE LIEBERMAN, I-CONN.: I don't think anybody thinks that...
Politics will have to wait for Jon Runyan. By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO — Politics will have to wait for Jon Runyan. Runyan practiced with the San Diego Chargers on Wednesday for the first time since signing a...
Plus, HP's storage sales and Buffalo's new 3.0 USB external hard drive HP storage looking limp Channel Register Chris Mellor writes about HP's fourth quarter storage business revenue results and compares them to NetApp's. “HP's...
