Scott meslow's new book, from hollywood with love, looks at its fortunes in the past 30 years. He argues that the romantic comedy is unfairly maligned and he makes a case for their cultural importance. The author offers potted oral histories of each film to give some hilarious insight into how these films got made.
As promised, Ukraine’s forces are fighting back tenaciously against a Russian invasion on multiple fronts—but Kyiv, the capital, is now squarely in the invaders’ sights. In England, the last covid restrictions were lifted entirely this week; we consider the calculations many leaders are making in this phase of the pandemic. And an assessment of romantic comedies as a cultural force.
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