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  Love & Other Drugs written and directed by Edward Zwick is a romantic comedy that had two Golden Globe nominations in 2011, for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical, Anne Hathaway, nevertheless, it is not an outstanding feature – you have thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where you see my resplendent macaws   7 out of 10   I like Jake Gyllenhaal, best known perhaps for Brokeback Mountain https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/02/brokeback-mountain-by-annie-proulx.html and I am also a fan of his sister, Maggie, her reading of The Bell Jar is one of the best performances in audiobooks that I know of   Nevertheless, Love & Other Drugs is not outstanding, a...

  Inception by Christopher Nolan – the writer, director and producer has become one of the most important film makers of our time, nay, of all time, in box office terms, he is already the seventh most successful, and he has a long way to go yet, besides, The Odyssey has just opened with a bang, about four hundred million dollars globally, in the first weekend – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies of All Time and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws perform   8 out of 10   Christopher Nolan https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2023/12/oppenheimer-based-on-book-by-kai-bird.html is the artist of the moment, indeed, this note will actually concentrate on what happens now, almost exclusively, and not on Inception, which is not a favorite of mine, a conclusion reached already here.   Which means here comes the spoiler ale...

  Note on Jurnal aka Diary by Monica Lovinescu | realini

  Un Alt Caragiale by Ion Luca Caragiale, narrator Andrei Plesu- the former was celebrated as our greatest writer, though some might put Mircea Cartarescu in that place now, and the latter is one of the greatest luminaries of all time – some notes on these and other wonderful authors are posted on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are the glorious surprise   9 out of 10   Ion Luca Caragiale https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/vizita-aka-visit-by-ion-luca-caragiale.html was the best writer in this land, until recently, when Mircea Cartarescu entered the stage and maybe now there would be a ‘competition’, some would prefer the latter anyway, seeing as he belongs to the present   Nevertheless, looking for our National Treasure on The Greatest Books of All Time site I have not found him, instead, we have at 3954 th Rakes of The Old Court by Mateiu Caragiale, and it...

    Humor She had her moments of ecstasy in the contemplation of beauty, periods of religious doubts, hours of religious faith Candleford was a pleasanat and peaceful place but it was no second Garden of Eden…sometimes one would break his neck falling… Cycling was considered such a sangeorus pastime that they telegraphed news of their arrival embellished only ran down two fouls, one pig and… Only for those with means, then for most and only men, then some women …soon almost anyone under forty was ‘awheel’ life at the post office was not dull, she reads between clients, though miss Lane would enter and ask if she knew all in the rules manual This postman converted at a chapel revivalist meeting and now he would ask people ‘how is it with your soul? Have you found salvation?’ impertinent questions people thought Laura invited to join the Primsrose League, but her father was a liberal, so she said so and then she was ‘contrarian’, did not think like the majority ...

  Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, although it is only 1431 st on the Greatest Books of All Time site – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   Somerset Maugham https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-summing-up-by-william-somerset.html is one of my favorite authors, notwithstanding the fact that I may find him less scintillating these days, case in point Cakes and Ale was less exhilarating that I may have expected, especially years ago   In the nineteen nineties I had to spend time in hospitals, for a duodenal ulcers and other reasons – if I go into that, I will never come back to the note – and I had some solace in that rather depressing atmosphere, and one support was Somerset Maugham, there were some female patients, young and attractive, and ...