The Dot had a knockdown, drag-out spat with a clerk at a big-box home-improvement store this past week. As the Dot was paying for a purchase at the register, the sales clerk, who was not Ms. Personality to begin with, asked for the Dot's telephone number. The Dot refused. The clerk insisted the number be provided. The Dot refused again. The clerk said she needed the number to verify where the
It wasn't the pig in the plaza of La Alberca, lounging in the sun. It wasn't the monastery on top of central Spain's highest peak, where only mountain goats and boulders kept us company. No, it was the old man and his wife sitting in stiff-backed chairs outside their adobe home, staring at us. It was the makeshift bullring next door, fading and forlorn. It was the entire, wrinkled face of
Plus other new and recent releases OPENING THIS WEEK CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN (PG) Set a millennium, give or take, after the last film, Prince Caspian finds the kingdom of Narnia once again under the thumb of evil despots and much in need of saving by our noble heroes. The studio hasn't been particularly eager to give critics an advance look at this one, but it's probably save to