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Why is everyone so scared of sincerity?
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With the Oscars just around the corner, inevitably it is another year where Jimmy Kimmel gets to stand onstage and talk about how much he hates all the movies that are nominated. “Wasn’t ‘Oppenheimer’ long?” he asks the grinning audience of celebrities and seat-fillers. Long gone are the days of celebrating movies at the…
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Goodbyes and Good Fries
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I hate hanging up the phone. I’ve never watched a season finale of a TV show without shedding a tear. When I finish a book, I am overcome by a sense of loss, as if by finishing it I have betrayed the characters and ended their story with the turn of the final page.…