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Salon Staff
Members of Salon's Table Talk community share their best-loved, least-lauded films this week. What are yours?
Beyond the valley of the doilies
Joy Press
The billion-dollar scrapbooking industry may be cheesy, but as author Jessica Helfand explains, there's rich history in that glitter and glue.
Princess Leia’s wild, bipolar adventures
Rebecca Traister
Help her, Obi-Wan! Carrie Fisher's memoir of her life as a "Star Wars" icon and poster child for rehab and mental illness will likely make you laugh -- and cry.
Guns and bombs in booming India
Sandip Roy
Amid calls for a fierce crackdown on "potential terrorists," Indians strive to define the Mumbai attackers as "the other."
The meta-Muscles from meta-Brussels
Andrew O'Hehir
Van Damme goes pomo Hamlet in the odd, ingratiating "JCVD." Plus: A wrenching divorce flick, Truffaut's great "Wild Child" and a gay zombie, lost in Berlin.
Paging Kenneth!
Sarah Hepola
"30 Rock" star Jack McBrayer opens up about how he's like his character, how it feels to watch Tina Fey become Sarah Palin, and who he's sleeping with.
Sarah Palin, $150,000 fashionista
Sarah Hepola
How much is too much to spend on a politician's wardrobe? Salon writers discuss the whopping price tag for the V.P. candidate's clothing.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
He's got Bette Davis eyes! CBS's "Eleventh Hour," NBC's "My Own Worst Enemy" and ABC's "Life on Mars" bring us soulful-eyed leading men who kick ass and take names as the world falls apart!
Which Gossip Girl is most like Obama?
Amy Benfer
Glossy magazines for teen girls are slipping in politics along with the lip gloss.
“The Wrestler”
Stephanie Zacharek
Mickey Rourke gives a knockout performance as a nearly washed-up wrestling star.
NFL Week 5: Debatable picks
King Kaufman
The question is which team is ready to break out. The answer: Let me talk about my energy policy.
Diagnosing Chuck Klosterman
Sarah Hepola
Wildly praised and pathologically reviled, the writer who built a career on pop-cultural essays explains why he has written a novel about small-town America.
Mike Leigh’s “Happy” days
Stephanie Zacharek
The celebrated director talks about his buoyant, bighearted new picture, "Happy-Go-Lucky." (Toronto Film Festival)
Toronto Film Festival
Stephanie Zacharek
The Venice Film Festival takes risks while Toronto promises gems like Claire Denis' "35 rhums," an intimate movie about the pleasures of home -- and knowing when to leave it.
Hope floats
Pasha Malla
She was unforgettable in Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke." Now Phyllis Montana-LeBlanc explains what the storm took away -- and never could.
Joe Biden and the political establishment’s overriding goal
Glenn Greenwald
The Washington Post editorial page celebrates Biden's selection as "a heartening recognition that time in Washington can be useful." Is it right?
Portrait of the artist as a fallen angel
Andrew O'Hehir
Indie hero Azazel Jacobs talks about casting his own parents -- and their eccentric, amazing New York apartment -- in his entrancing breakthrough film "Momma's Man."
Paulie Walnuts has been located!
Gary Kamiya
The scary "Sopranos" mobster showed up in Beijing, cunningly disguised as an American pole-vault coach.
The saga of George W. Batman
Andrew O'Hehir
"Dark Knight" backlash, counterbacklash and so on. Plus: Sleazy Latin lovers, Ben Kingsley as a Russian cop and other reasons never to leave home.
The rise and fall of an American beer
Edward McClelland
Before it was bought by Belgium's InBev, Budweiser trampled local breweries across this land. Who's crying in their (piss) beer now?
Remembering Thomas M. Disch
Elizabeth Hand
In his many dark, satirical, heretical books, the pioneering science fiction author contemplated death with elegant despair.
Parade shames Gloucester Girls
Tracy Clark-Flory
This family-friendly event features teenagers with fake bellies and signs reading, "Sluts missed sex ed."
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