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Straight Watch: Ringing in 2007, Smelling Fine

Welcome the best and worst of this week's edition of the Georgia Straight. The issue is focused on film but seemed lighter than usual. The cover art promised a 2006 movies spectacular. But in less you really liked Click be afraid, be very afraid. Intern, roll the clips:

5. The cover story is the Top Movies of 2006. Ron Yamauchi picked Click, "Not generally recognized as a brilliant movie upon its release, Adam Sandler’s latest is an astute reverse-engineering of Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day, in which the star’s stolidly oblivious persona is played for tragedy. Profound, with fart jokes." And Casino Royale, " In a year of disappointing hype (Snakes on a Plane, Superman Returns), one popcorn thriller finally delivered a full measure of spectacular, nerve-racking fun. Daniel Craig’s Bond is a charming sociopath, perpetually one martini from delivering (or receiving) a frenzied beat-down." Wow.

4. The first City Single of the Week of the year. Always fun to start off with the kind of gal who likes sour creme on her steak. Scarlett's ideal partner is a mixture of "Doctor McDreamy and Hugh Jackman." You do the math on that statement, but being Hugh Jackman's beard is fantastic by us. Not judging.

3. Gothe delivers the smug with a first part of his best of wine box. How else can you explain this: "WATERSTONE CARNEROS PINOT NOIR 2003 ($34.70) The price is positively bargainish, especially for the first of three Pinot Noirs on the list—huge and deep and robust, the kind of California Pinot that reminds us what all the fuss was, is, and will continue to be about." I love the idea of 35$ of wine being refered to as a bargain. Well Played Gothe.

2. Oh no. Jim Green doesn't yet think he's ready to sign up for a comeback to face Sam Sullivan in 2008 for the Mayor's chair. "I’m like really good, fresh Italian food—very simple, very clear, and very flavoured," said Green. How sad is it that in Vancouver politics that our choices are between Sullivan and a non-commital Green.

1. Ah, the review of the new film Perfume by Janet Smith offering up all the scent puns you can handle: "Still, Perfume is worth sniffing out if you’re craving something other than the usual post-holiday fare. Despite its flaws, its haunting, oddball charms, like its potions, work an undeniable spell —if you can handle a few off-putting odours." Sniff.

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