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							  Too hot for Pawtucket?
							  Does it mean anything that Jesse Eisenberg's follow-up to  Adventureland  is  Zombieland  and that it also includes a theme park?
							  Giselle  at the Boston Opera House
							  In his new film about the Wall Street meltdown, Michael Moore — surprise! — denounces capitalism and its exploitation of the working class. Not that he's above doing a little exploiting himself.
							  The first thing audiences see when the curtain goes up on Boston Ballet's  Giselle  is our heroine's charming Rhineland-village home, a rustic abode that in Peter Farmer's set is framed by birches, a symbol of fidelity.
 
				
					
					
							
							  The local-media story line of the moment is the push by Stephen Taylor — Milton resident, Yale media lecturer, and former  Boston  Globe  executive VP — to recapture the paper his family ran for more than a century, a goal he's pursuing with the backing of (among others) his cousin Benjamin Taylor, the former  Globe  publisher.
							  "When J switched to guitar [from drums], he wanted to feel that same power. and the only way he could do that was to be, like, super loud. . . ."
							  I never call chefs before writing a review, but if I did speak with Brian Flagg of North 26, I'd ask him if Jasper White has ever paid a visit.
							  Senator Ted Kennedy's months-long battle with brain cancer inspired endless commentary about the demise of Camelot.
							  Too hot for Pawtucket?
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