The old truism that the movie is never as good as the book proves happily untrue in the case of Shopgirl. The movie captures the tender, heartfelt nature that made Steve Martin’s novella a best-seller.
We called it the Bulldozer. A 2000-pound gas-slurping, tar-squashing, gravel-flinging workhouse for 15 straight years. As long as no one stole the battery.
Georgetown’s ailing ambulance fleet received a much-needed new edition when Unit Eight, a brand-new Type III ambulance, arrived on campus Sunday night.
Sean Scully’s paintings, on display at The Phillips Collection, are based on a trip he made to Mexico some 20 years ago and the sumptuous shades of the Mayan ruins he encountered there.