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--Ric Burns' 125-hour documentary series, New York . There were a few engaging features--the astonishing photographs, Robert Caro talking about Al Smith, John Tierney arguing that the workers at the Triangle shirtwaist factory could have just gotten other jobs instead of catching fire; they were only calling attention to themselves.
Inspired to despair helplessly: That has been my ongoing reaction to the Peter Singer piece in the Times magazine the week before last, an article to which John Tierney refers in his column in today's Times as well.
The Tierney piece this morning was a disappointment to me, because although I can never read enough about the Duff-Perelman divorce, I didn't find Peter Unger particularly interesting on the subject.
The best reason for seeing Forces of Nature --a sporadically funny but uneasily revisionist screwball comedy in which straight-arrow Ben Affleck is tempted from his imminent nuptials by free spirit Sandra Bullock and assorted natural disasters--is a scene in which the heartsick jock ex-boyfriend (David Strickland) of Affleck's fiancee (Maura Tierney) sings an a cappella version of Phil Collins' "Against All Odds (Take a Look At Me Now)" into her ear in the middle of a party.
Cornelius E. Tierney Professor of Accountancy George Washington University