Confessions of a Shopaholic (movie)

Thwarted by the same awkward timing that zonked "Confessions of a Shopaholic" two years ago, just when shopaholics began to seem extra-heinous, the film version of "I Don't Know How She Does It" doesn't know how to do what I think it's trying to do. I...

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Lynn Redgrave has died. The once and always Georgy Girl, one of the many acting Redgraves, I last recall seeing in The White Countess, with her late niece Natasha Richardson and sister Vanessa Redgrave. And she played a funny drunk in Confessions of a...

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Under the Streetlamp Saturday March 19 8:00 p.m. Paramount Theatre 25 E. Galena Boulevard Aurora Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com (630) 896-6666 www.ParamountAurora.com www.underthestreetlamp.com The performance will raise funds for the Aurora Area...

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Confessions of a Shopaholic is a lot more in sync with the zeitgeist than you'd expect from a movie with that title. A dizzy and chic chick picture for our times, this hit-or-miss comedy is about the perils of conspicuous consumption, the void that...

Isla Fisher, who stars in "Confessions of a Shopaholic," has a secret of her own: It was all method acting. "I'm not anti-shopping, but I shop rarely and poorly," says the actress, who's been handed the Herculean task of making a hero out of a woman...