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Book Review: When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton (Blogcritics.org) - Not long after her wedding, Madeline Maciver (nee Schiller) crashes her bicycle and suffers a brain injury that leaves her with the cognitive abilities of a six-year-old. Her husband, Aaron, assumes her care, but also divorces her when it is clear she will not recover. He marries Julia and starts a family, one where his ex-wife becomes the de facto eldest, then youngest, child, her mental age

REVIEW: Language is no barrier for 'Babel,' but disparate plots are (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) - If you saw "Crash," the message hit you like a freight train: We are all connected in a web of coincidence.

Theater review (Moorpark Acorn) - Many couples look for the perfect date movie to enjoy together on weekends. Moorpark College presents the perfect date play, "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change," in the Main Stage theater, Performing Arts Center.

Pols AWOL from the job (Newsday) - As City Council members mull giving themselves a 25% raise, an amNewYork review of individual attendance records found plenty of room for improvement -- particularly in the case of three legislators who have missed a quarter of their meetings so far this year.

Movie Review: 'Babel' (San Antonio Express News) - Nonlinear and hard-hitting. That's the style that catapulted Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu into the international arena with "Amores Perros" in 2001.

Church annuls marriage stranger than fiction (INQ7.net) - A WEALTHY businessman made a stunning revelation to his wife shortly after their wedding. “I’m impotent,” he told her. To keep the new marriage, he offered a bizarre concession: His wife could contact her former boyfriend and have a child with him.

Movie Talk (WPRI 12 Providence) - Welcome to Movie Talk, a blog dishing out opinions, news, and more about feature flix. Do you think you've got what it takes to review a movie? We're looking for a few good reviewers!

TV Review: Lost - "I Do" (Blogcritics.org) - This was it, the last Lost until February 7. I know I'll appreciate the lack of reruns through the Spring, but it feels like we barely got a taste of the series this Fall. Six episodes ain't nuthin', Freckles. Tonight's episode, "I Do," had its interesting points and moved a few things forward, but there were no grand surprises overall. Well, there was the Jack Finally Wised Up bit, but

Britney's heartbreak hotels (USA Today) - How can you tell when a married couple is on the rocks? One sign: when the wedding band disapppears from a ring finger. Another: when they're in the same city and check into separate hotels. That's the case with Britney...

Second Helping (Denver Westword) - When Larry Leith says his idea for Tokyo Joe's -- a fast-casual Japanese rice- and noodle-bowl joint-- came out of nowhere (see review, page 50), he may be overlooking a Colorado mini-chain called Kokoro.