Last year, when the Academy decided to raise the number of Best Picture Oscar nominees to 10, some people wondered how the Academy would manage to find 10 truly Oscar-worthy films to nominate. Earlier this year, those 10 slots were filled with a little of everything: big budgets and tiny ones, comedy, drama, science-fiction, and even Pixar’s animated Up. Of last
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I perched on the stepladder, fish net in one hand and fly swatter in the other, eyeing the parakeet Yvette set free from the cage. It fluttered and I snared. All it took was a flick of the wrist.
The manager below turned on his heel. He shook his fist at Yvette and stormed off. She cackled.
Yvette was in early stage dementia. We didn’t know that then. This was at Newberry’s, the last of the downtown five and dimes. I
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