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Two nerds stand in front of a movie poster.

Grungella: The title of the movie is “My Only?” 
Ernie: There’s a text smiley next to it, so maybe it’s “My Only Smiley”.
Grungella: That makes no sense to me.
Ernie: It could be “My Only Umlaut”.
Grungella: It’s another language, and I don’t mean German. Could it be “My Only You”? Is that grammatical? It sounds Palinesque.

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When I saw the TV commercial in which two actors are getting ready for a dream date, I thought the dream date was with each other. It’s not just that I haven’t seen a heterosexual in days, it’s the way the montage of the two guys getting dressed is edited.

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Anthony Lane on the dueling movies by the dueling soon to be ex-Ritchies: “What vexes me most about “Filth and Wisdom” is the economics. Madonna has been a global star for decades. She has amassed a fortune, much of which presumably remains intact. She can’t have spent all of it on jodhpurs and conical bras. So why, when it came to launching herself as a film director, did she limit her budget to $365.23? Such, at any rate, is my estimate for the funding of “Filth and Wisdom.” If the actors were paid according to their talents, they cannot have cost more than forty bucks…“RocknRolla,” by contrast, has competence on its side. Whole scenes go by in which one shot actually matches the next.”

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Nerd’s eye view of the Democratic National Convention in September: “It was. . .like the change that might occur between the first and second volumes of some spectacular science fiction fantasy epic. At the end of the first volume, after bitter struggle, Obama had claimed the presumptive nomination. We Fremen had done the impossible, against Sardaukar and imperial shock troops alike. We had brought water to Arrakis.” Michael Chabon on Obama & the Conquest of Denver.

 

PHOTO РA la fin du d̩bat. (REUTERS)