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CHOCOLATE DALLYWANKERS

August 1, 2005 by Tim Riley

The liberal hand-wringing over Justice O’Connor has been pathetic: her two most important decisions? Bush vs. Gore, followed swiftly by her stepping down, giving Bush a big wet sloppy one. Rumor has it her husband is ill; nobody bothered to track this down, or figure out her true motive, which makes it even more obvious: she’s a yahoo dressed up as a centrist. John Roberts is a stealth nominee who will conveniently distract most from Bolton’s recess app’t.



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LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU


Few reviewers nailed this charmingly postmodernist homage to boyhood, which contains one of the great climactic post-terrorist attack retorts (inexplicably missing from this page): “I’ve never seen a bank stooge stand up for ANYBODY…”




WEDDING CRASHERS

I thought Rachel McAdams an inspired piece of casting in this lumpen rental, which Vaughn steals from Wilson. But all the way through, I thought she was Ashley Williams, who deserves a break.

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