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JEAN SMART: (As Deborah Vance) Are you a lesbian? Here, she's first meeting her new young writer Ava, played by co-star Hannah Einbinder. If she was terrific as Kate Winslet's snappish mom in "Mare Of Easttown," she was flat-out brilliant in "Hacks" as Deborah Vance, a legendary Vegas comedian whose past is as layered with struggle and pain as her dialogue is studded with wisecracks. I suspect many actors feel that way watching Jean Smart, who in her 70th year reached the pinnacle of a crackerjack career. As a one-time literature professor, I read Saunders' book with the odd admiration of an ordinary basketball player watching Steph Curry shoot.
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Based on a writing class Saunders teaches at Syracuse University, the seven essays in this volume are an inspiring masterclass in how to read, how to write and how reading and writing can help us learn how to live. It would be misleading to say that George Saunders' "A Swim In The Pond In The Rain" unleashes the fun side of Russian literature, but his book fills you with the life-enhancing excitement one can get from reading the likes of Chekhov or Tolstoy. She unleashes the fun side of Daniel Craig. Although this theater hopes to shake us with its air of romantic tragedy, de Armas stirs this with something far better. You find the same lightness of spirit in the most enjoyable scene of the new James Bond movie, "No Time To Die." When 007 crashes a specter soiree in Havana, he meets up with a newbie agent played by Ana de Armas, the Cuban-born actress best known for "Knives Out." What follows is a beautifully choreographed sequence in which the two banter, flirt and blast their way out of a death trap, punctuating the pandemonium by knocking back martinis that are surely shaken and not stirred. He's the Fred Astaire of American sports. And even better, in an era when too many sports stars grimly chase titles or relentlessly push their brands, Steph invariably exudes ease, joy and playfulness. We're now back to the point at which a shiver of pleasure goes through the crowd each time he touches the ball. Yet a few years ago when his Golden State Warriors were unbeatable, his genius became the target of nitpicking and resentment.

Steph Curry shoots a basketball better than anyone who ever lived.

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Topping my list is something you might not expect - a professional athlete. As 2021 comes to an end, I want to single out for praise seven revelatory people or things that I haven't talked about but that surprised me or filled me with delight.
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JOHN POWERS, BYLINE: Although the world began slowly opening up this year, I still spent countless hours in my home, plowing through movies, TV shows and books, many of which I reviewed on this show. Each year at this time, he singles out a few people or things for special attention. Our critic at large John Powers has an omnivorous taste for books, movies, TV shows and sports.
