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Critics find Waiting to Exhale director Forest Whitaker's latest chick flick guilty of the genre's worst defects: tear-jerking melodrama, shots of little girls with stuffed animals, and the "emotional range of a sympathy card" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Some predict that Sandra Bullock's performance--as a prom queen who returns to her hometown after her husband cheats on her--will only deepen her midcareer funk.
Green is correct in writing that the (unabridged Funk & Wagnalls) Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893) gives two pronunciations for each entry, but he is mistaken in reporting that one represents the popular pronunciation, the other showing the precise one [p.364]: there are two pronunciations because one employs a more popular, presumably understandable pronunciation key (called, in the phonetics trade, a broad transcription) while the other cleaves to a scholarly transcription (called a narrow transcription); if such a pattern were followed today, the first would be the simplified system used generally in most dictionaries and the second would employ the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (which, for their more recondite transcriptions, require a trained phonetician for their understanding).
Leading off the week, there's good news for everyone still in a funk over Frank Sinatra's passing: A&E has put together a swingin' two-part, four-hour Biography on the Rat Pack (Part 1, Sun.
Funk dismisses Queen Elizabeth I and Betsy Ross as possible eponymous sources and concludes, “It is much more likely to have been derived in some way from the frontiersman's rifle or gun which, for some unknown reason, he always fondly called Betsy.
The piece also mentions that Steven Spielberg was in a deep funk after Amistad got jilted for Oscar noms.
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