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Week of November 18, 2011

Daytime belongs moms, their newborns and seniors. First up…

Larry Crowne

Nowadays, anyone with a high school education can get a well-paying job with benefits…in 1966.

Unfortunately, the unemployed veteran in this dramedy doesn’t have access to a time machine.

Due to a lack of post-secondary education, Larry (Tom Hanks) is let go from his job at the local U-mart.

After some soul-searching he decides to enroll in community college. There, he becomes acquainted with his younger classmates, who initiate him into their scooter gang.

Meanwhile, Larry’s love life picks up when his married teacher (Julia Roberts) becomes available.

Amidst all his socializing, Larry must also procure employment and save his home from foreclosure.

Lacking both the illumination and the laughs required to be anything more than a million-dollar ad campaign for continuing education, Larry Crowne fails.

However, going back to school in your 40s does makes sense, because after working for 20 years, you can finally afford to pay tuition.  0

***Architechnical*** 

The Fountainhead

Architects may build schools and hospitals, but they also erect vile things like legitimate massage parlors and non-denominational churches.

And while the draftsman in this drama designs some strange structures, he’s got no use for a tolerate god or a rub and tug.

Tired of dealing with the animosity his non-conformist architectural feats attract, rigid engineer, Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), opts to work in a quarry instead of compromising his vision.

While cracking rocks, he meets a socialite Dominique (Patricia Neal). The two are later reacquainted when Roark returns to the city for a new project.

But when the financiers start altering his blueprints, Roark takes drastic actions against his own construct - with Dominique’s assistance.

Based on Ayn Rand’s tale of the individual vs. the collective, The Fountainhead is a remarkable adaptation, superbly shot and finely acted.     

And while individualism may work when designing a building, it doesn’t during its construction.

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