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"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" Review: Been There, Done That - Unless You're 15

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Much of the hype and press coverage on "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" will focus on Emma Watson, who has her first sizable post-"Harry Potter" role here as a slightly wild high school senior. (She was in last year's "My Week with Marilyn," but if you blinked, you likely missed her.)

The young British star is talented and engaging enough and manages a passable American accent in this appealing coming-of-age comedy, but the real show stealer in "Perks" is Ezra Miller. He's a sharp-faced, 19-year old actor who has already impressed in "City Island," "Another Happy Day" and "We Need To Talk About Kevin." Playing a disaffected teen who is gay and secretly involved with a high school football star, he radiates the same fierce intelligence and dark humor that one saw in a young Richard Dreyfuss or Dustin Hoffman, whom he vaguely resembles.

Neither of them is the movie's main character. "Perks'" protagonist is Charlie (Logan Lerman), a shy but intelligent youth who, at the film's start, is beginning ninth grade after having suffered some sort of breakdown over the summer. He's feeling emotionally fragile, and it doesn't help that his parents (Dylan McDermott and Kate Walsh) keep watching him closely for signs of a relapse.

As he makes friends with step siblings Patrick (Miller) and Sam (Watson), who are part of an older crowd, i.e. seniors, with whom Charlie starts hanging, our young hero is exposed to sex, drugs, mix tapes and midnight showings of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." How he navigates all of this, along with repeated troubling flashbacks involving a beloved aunt who died (Melanie Lynskey), makes for a compelling and believable story.

Director and screenwriter Stephen Chbosky (TV's "Jericho") based "Perks" on his own popular 1999 novel of the same name. The movie succeeds best in sympathetically portraying its young characters, giving them far more depth than the stereotypes seen in most teen movies.

These are smart, though at times troubled, kids. They have the usual anxieties about sex, college, and what comes next. Charlie is depicted as having an extra dose of anxiety because of something that happened to him in his past. It's this last point that, when revealed, sends the movie into the realm of clich?, relying as it does on a plot device that is an overused storytelling crutch.

"Perks" is for adolescents looking for a fairly honest film about themselves and what it's really like to be 15 or 16 and trying to find your way toward adulthood. Adults will find it watchable and engrossing until, well, about two-thirds of the way through when one's patience with teen angst wears thin. Been there, done that - no need to relive it.

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Real estate industry welcomes changes to FHA condo rules | Armonk

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Life Is Too Short To Drive A Boring Car - Business Review Australia

NEW YORK, Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Business partners Steven Landau, and Alan Goodman became owners of?The Classic Car Gallery?in Southport, Connecticut, as a way to express of their love for exciting cars. Mr. Landau who had previously been an oil trader on the Mercantile Exchange traded in his lucrative day job in pursuit of his automotive passion.

Upon entering the shop one of the first things I noticed was the Gallery's slogan, "Life is too short to drive a boring car." The criterion Mr. Landau uses for determining what qualifies as an exciting car mainly revolves around what cars he thinks are fun to drive, or have a good character about them. An additional qualification is that the car, whatever its make or model, must represent one of the finest available examples on the market. The Gallery isn't in the business of buying a beater, and flipping it for a profit. Instead, Mr. Landau looks for cars that are in excellent condition. He finds that often owners of fine cars are simply unwilling to continue paying for costly maintenance issues, and as a result are willing to sell cars that are fine examples once minor repairs are done on at the shop.

Mr. Landau's personal collection of cars includes a Mercedes 190SL, a Noble M400 producing upwards of 400hp, a 1970's Maserati Gibli, and a BMW?E46 M5. Given his fine personal collection, it's no wonder that the shop is filled to the brim with superb examples of exotic and classic cars from all eras. Currently on sale is a 1956 Jaguar XK140 featuring all the racing accessories a vintage racecar collector could ever want. Also on sale is a 1970 Saab 96 factory produced Rally Car that is best described by Mr. Landau who writes, "With a bare metal race car interior, full roll cage, racing seats with 5 point harnesses, Halda Tripmaster [odometer], [racing] ?gauges, dead pedal for the navigator, dual fire existquishers?this car screams race car!" Also on sale is a meticulously resorted 1940 Packard 110 Club Coupe, restored by one of the preeminent Packard experts around.

Currently, the Gallery has over 40 cars on sale, ranging in make from Jaguar, to Chevrolet, to Rolls Royce. But according to Mr. Landau, the Gallery most prefers Porsches. Mr. Landau thinks that Porsches represent a wonderful balance between exhilarating performance and unrivaled mechanical reliability. It is because of the wonderful engineering of German cars, that Mr. Landau finds them to be a good investment. At one time, Mr. Landau owned a heavily modified 1980's Porsche 911 that was prone to shoot three foot long flames out of the tailpipe as it smoked flashier exotic cars of the period. But despite the cars modifications, the Porsche operated just as it should.

The beauty of the Classic Car Gallery extends beyond the wonderful assortment of fine cars. It is the attitude that Mr. Landau and Mr. Goodman adopt that makes the Gallery a special place. They see themselves as gearhead ambassadors, and as such, welcome car enthusiasts into their shop whether of not they're in the market for a collector car. They'll go over each car's features and quirks, open up the hood of an exotic Superperformence Daytona Coupe, or discuss the misleading nature of televised auctions. Though Mr. Landau is running a business, he treats visitors as though the Gallery is something more, a haven for car lovers, a resource for anyone interested in finding an exciting car, an antidote to boring cars.

The Classic Car Gallery is located at 3266 Post Road, Southport, Connecticut.

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Arrest on suspicion of Malibu DUI for actor Madsen

FILE - U.S. actor and president of the Champs-Elysees Film Festival Michael Madsen, poses at the Plaza Athenee Hotel, in Paris, in this June 6, 2012 file photo. Madsen was arrested Wednesday Sept. 12, 2012 on suspicion of drunken driving in Malibu and is spending the night in a hospital. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says Madsen had a blood alcohol level of .21. The legal limit is .08. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

FILE - U.S. actor and president of the Champs-Elysees Film Festival Michael Madsen, poses at the Plaza Athenee Hotel, in Paris, in this June 6, 2012 file photo. Madsen was arrested Wednesday Sept. 12, 2012 on suspicion of drunken driving in Malibu and is spending the night in a hospital. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says Madsen had a blood alcohol level of .21. The legal limit is .08. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) ? Michael Madsen was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of drunken driving on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, and was expected to spend the night in a hospital, authorities said.

It was the second arrest in six months for the "Reservoir Dogs" actor.

Madsen was pulled over for driving erratically in a red Pontiac GTO shortly before 3 p.m. Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

In a preliminary test Madsen had a blood alcohol level of .21, more than twice the legal limit of .08, Whitmore said.

While he was being booked, Madsen complained of a medical problem and was taken to a hospital, where doctors said he should spend the night. Deputies then cited and released him.

Whitmore said privacy laws prevent him from describing the medical problem.

A late-night phone message left for Madsen's attorney Perry Wander was not immediately returned.

Madsen is best known for playing killers in the Quentin Tarantino films "Reservoir Dogs" and "Kill Bill" parts 1 and 2, and also appeared in the family-friendly whale pic "Free Willy."

In March, Madsen was arrested at his Malibu home after what detectives said was a drunken fight with his teenage son, but prosecutors declined to file charges because of a lack of evidence.

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Is Verizon readying a HTC Desire 4G LTE?

Verizon is quite fond of its DROID branding, so the screenshot here obtained by Engadget leaves us a little curious. The image is reportedly of a Verizon internal device management system and clearly bears reference to a HTC Desire 4G LTE. Not to be confused with the DROID Incredible 4G LTE, listed alongside it, this appears to be a completely different device. 

While there is every chance that the name may not be final, the lack of DROID branding potentially indicates a low to mid-range device. With HTC having just launched the Desire X during IFA 2012, perhaps Big Red could be receiving their own LTE variant? Whatever the case may be, for the time being we'll file this one under the big old rumor pile until we see more. 

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Location, Libation, Libation

Yerba mate (left), and malbec (right)

Yerba mate photo by Ramzi Haidar/AFP/Getty Images. Wine photo by Ed Yourdon.

In 1964, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges wrote the sonnet ?To Wine,? which celebrated the wondrous qualities of the drink. ?Wine,? the poem proclaimed,

flows red along the great length of generations
like the river of time and on the arduous road
bestows on us its music, its fire, and its lions.

Americans know what he was talking about?we?re crazy about Argentine wines. Malbec has become a standard feature of tasting menus and cocktail parties in the United States, as has, to a lesser degree, the white wine torront?s. Both varietals appeal to our palates without doing too much damage to our wallets.

Lesser known in America is yerba mate, which, along with wine, slakes thirsts, alters minds, and orchestrates the rituals of everyday Argentine life. Mate (which rhymes with ?latte? and is sometimes spelled ?mat??) is a tea-like caffeinated infusion that outsells coffee and tea combined in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern Brazil. It?s brewed and served in virtually every home in Argentina. And it was important to Borges, too?in an interview at the end of his life, he reflected, ?I drank a lot of mate when I was young. Drinking mate was, for me, the way to feel like a creole of old.?

Borges wasn?t the only fan of both wine and yerba mate?in fact, it?s hard to imagine life in Argentina without both. But just as the simple dish of spaghetti and red sauce actually contains the history of European, Asian, and American interactions (the tomato was a New World plant, introduced into Europe centuries?perhaps millennia?after Italians began eating pasta), the two daily beverages of Argentina shed light on a complicated past. Even the names of the beverages hint at their backstory: The word mate comes from a native language spoken in the Andes; wine (or vino) has Indo-European roots. The story of how mate and wine became the reigning beverages of Argentina is a story of geography, immigration, and taste. ?

The tale begins in the earliest days of Europe?s colonization of the Americas. Starting with Christopher Columbus, wine grapes accompanied Europeans to the New World because of their role in the Roman Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist?without wine, you couldn?t have Mass. The plant didn?t fare well in the hot and humid Caribbean, but in the dry slopes of the Andes, warmed by ample sunlight and watered by the frigid runoff from snow-capped mountains, vitis vinifera flourished.

The first wine grapes planted in Argentina?humble Spanish whites like the moscatel and the hybrid torront?s?were brought by a priest, Juan Cedr?n, in the 1550s. The task of winemaking fell to inexperienced colonists, and their product was largely eschewed in favor of stronger spirits by indigenous locals. But the wine sufficed as fodder for Holy Communion.

Meanwhile, conquistadors were also eager to discover new foods and drugs in the New World. (Can we even imagine not knowing about chocolate, vanilla, tobacco, potatoes, or chilies? All were New World plants.) When 16^th-century Spanish explorers worked their way westward across the continent, they found that indigenous groups like the Guaran? steeped or chewed the leaves of a local tree, Ilex paraguariensis, for a jolt of energy. The locals called the stimulant ca?a, which means plant in the Guaran? language; the Spanish followed their lead and called it plant, too: hierba, or the older Spanish form, yerba.

The Europeans quickly got into the habit. To properly drink mate, a gourd (called a mati in the Quechua language) is packed to the brim with smoke-dried leaves and stems, filled with warm (not boiling) water, and then passed from one person to another. Each participant drains the gourd through the same perforated straw, which the Spanish dubbed a bombilla. The colonists enjoyed the ritual and the beverage so much that they began trading the leaves throughout the Southern Hemisphere. (The Paran? River basin lacked the spectacular mineral wealth of Mexico and Peru, which meant that the colonists had little else to trade besides mate.)

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