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Both books bemoan the lack of affordable housing, for example.
The Italians reserve their scorn for each other — Venetians and Romans or Milanese and Neapolitans comically bemoan the new EU-imposed automobile license plates that no longer designate the driver’s origin.
But, just as commentators bemoan the way contemporary pop has degenerated into sampling, remixes, and cover versions, so 2Pac's death seems to be merely a cunningly sampled remixed cover-version medley of previous celebrity deaths.
Critics bemoan the absence of songs in this latest film depiction of the romance between British widow Anna Leonowens and King Mongkut of Siam, familiar to most viewers through the musical The King and I . Critics contend that leads Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-Fat have weak chemistry and that the film is "a luxuriant, lumbering behemoth … pleasant, occasionally amusing--and often dull" (Andy Seiler, USA Today ). Roger Ebert gives a surprisingly harsh review: "It is an exotic escapist entertainment for matinee ladies, who can fantasize about sex with that intriguing bald monster and indulge their harem fantasies" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Jay Carr of the Boston Globe dissents from the pack, calling the film "a lot more than The King and I minus Rodgers's and Hammerstein's music.
The weekly book reviews like such highbrow biographies as Hermione Lee's Virginia Woolf (the New York Times Book Review ) and Jorge Castañeda's Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara (Richard Eder, the Los Angeles Times ). Other reviewers fill their lists with celebrity memoirs, especially Mia Farrow's What Falls Away --a trend some critics bemoan.
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