Best of 3am
Christine S. Blystone
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Gobble, Gobble
A No-Cookin’ Turkey Day
Wait. Are you telling us that you’re actually thinking about cooking this Thanksgiving? You’re going to spend hours cleaning the house and then baste a turkey or whatever and stick it in the oven, and spend all this time mashing up potatoes and defrosting the frozen pumpkin pie from Fred Meyer, and then serve it […]
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Quit Bellyaching!
Remedies for the Extreme Eater Who’s Gone Too Far
Pullout: The Food Issue
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Japanese Chicks are Hot
Succinct Reviews for the Discerning Cinephile
Directed by German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer, the unfortunately titled
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Like Ashton and Demi
With An Extra Scoop of Boring
Prime begins with counselor Lisa Metzger (Meryl Streep) telling her recently divorced client, 37-year-old Rafi Gardet (Uma Thurman), to embrace her new life and live it to the fullest. So when Rafi meets David (Bryan Greenberg), a hunky painter 14 years her junior, she does just that, deciding to have a little fun and enjoy […]
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Sex, Blood, and… Uh, Emotions?
Succinct Reviews for the Discerning Cinephile
Where the Truth Lies dir. Egoyan Opens Fri Oct 28 Fox Tower Where the Truth Lies is a whodunit centered around a fictional ’50s comedy duo; an oddly cast (but surprisingly sufficient) Kevin Bacon is paired with Colin Firth, who plays the straight man to Bacon’s jerkier, dirtier half. The mystery: A young woman’s found […]
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Laugh, Cry, Gag
In Her Shoes: One for the Gals
In Her Shoes dir. Hanson Opens Fri Oct 7 Various Theaters Cameron Diaz always plays characters that make me gag, and there has yet to be an exception to this rule. Take In Her Shoes, where Diaz plays Maggie, a twentysomething who specializes in stealing, lying, and slutting it up for the guys. (Any guy. […]
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Spiral-Bound, Interman, Heartbreakers Meet Boilerplate
In only its second year of existence, the Stumptown Comics Fest has already quadrupled in size. This year