Alan Dale earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He currently works as a corporate tax attorney in Portland, Oregon.
He is the author of What We Do Best: American Movie Comedies of the 1990s and Comedy Is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies.
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Youth carries the day.
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Movie Review: Robert Towne's Ask the Dust - Laughing at Your Own Funeral
Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, and Robert Towne in tragicomic sync.
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Movie Review: Shortbus
John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus — it's all porno.
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Book Review: The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
"The artist's load" and Waugh: He didn't know America well enough to hate it.
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Movie Review: Oliver Stone's World Trade Center
At least this flawed but uplifting Knights-in-Distress story is not an "Oliver Stone movie."
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Movie Review: The Break-Up and Friends With Money: Men and Women Without Qualities
Aniston is not a movie star; Vaughn should be.
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Movie Review: Jack Black in Nacho Libre
All it needs to be — ridiculous from beginning to end.
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Movie Review: Danny Leiner's The Great New Wonderful
Maggie Gyllenhaal hits another peak.
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DVD Review: Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky - Actor! Actor!
Whole lotta actin' goin' on.
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Movie Review: The Devil Wears Prada - Apologies All Around
Promises more hell than it delivers.
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