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Parks and Rec

Casting Jonathan Franzen’s “Purity,” the Movie

Born For a Role:  Aubrey Plaza as Pip Tyler Scarcely a dozen pages in to Jonathan Franzen’s terrific new novel, “Purity” (I’m now halfway through), it’s obvious that it’s only a matter of time before the book is turned into a movie. Who’ll be cast as the book’s main characters? My candidate to play the...
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3 Weddings (& No Funerals)**

90 Miles from Pawnee, Indiana (Just Not Sure Which Direction*) OK, so I was only invited to one of the weddings. But, when you’re in formal attire, you can temporarily mill around, ala “Wedding Crashers,” at any other wedding. So, walking from my hotel to the Lowenstein-Rudy wedding at Indianapolis’ Chase Tower Sunday (top photo), I stumbled across...
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