Vladimir Nabokov

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> http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1268614,00.html
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> Some Like it Hot
> Picador ?.99, pp752 Nobody's perfect but Anthony Lane comes pretty
> close without ever seeming to make much of an effort. Perhaps that's the
> trick. This 'hunk of old journalism', as he puts it, contains a >selection
of his reviews and essays for the New Yorker from the last 10 >years. It
opens with a review of Indecent Proposal ('How much ...
> Sunday 2004-07-25, The Observer (English)
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> Dan Neill on Nobody's Perfect | Words of Mercury | Anne Widdecombe
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> Sunday July 25, 2004
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> Nobody's Perfect
> by Anthony Lane
> Picador ?.99, pp752
> Nobody's perfect but Anthony Lane comes pretty close without ever
> seeming to make much of an effort. Perhaps that's the trick. This 'hunk
> of old journalism', as he puts it, contains a selection of his reviews
> and essays for the New Yorker from the last 10 years.
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> It opens with a review of Indecent Proposal ('How much would you pay
> for an evening with Demi Moore's mind?') and closes with a profile of
> Billy Wilder ('the man who has told more cold truths than many of us
> would care to hear').
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> Crammed in between there are more than 700 pages of erudite and witty
> prose, including a hilarious review of Showgirls ('the title is not so
> much a noun as an imperative') as well as pieces on Nabokov and Bresson.
> To paraphrase Lane's review of Un Coeur en Hiver: 'You realise how long
> it's been since a critic actually taught you anything.'
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