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Politicians, musicians, journalists, chefs and actors: A Capital week in review

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This week we spent some time with gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo and congressional candidate Reshma Saujani; some East Village bloggers and their counterparts at the Times; composer Gabriel Prokofiev, chef Jim Lahey, and actor Angelina Jolie. Some Sunday reading for you! More

By Tom McGeveran

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July 25, 2010 7:55 am

 

The secret ambition of 'Salt' (and Angelina Jolie)

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I went into Salt expecting a big, loud, incoherent, derivative action film without a single smart bone in its plasticized body. A film with no personality, no taste, no sense of style. And yet another film that makes you wonder whatever happened to Angelina Jolie, whose acclaimed early work in Girl, Interrupted, the HBO biopic Gia, the TNT miniseries “George Wallace,” marked her as a potentially great screen star, a ferociously charismatic actress in a pinup girl’s body. More

By Matt Zoller Seitz

July 23, 2010 4:35 pm

 

Summer reading: Flowers of Evil

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Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More

By Tom McGeveran

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July 20, 2010 8:15 am