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As one of its stars, Michelle Williams, so astutely put it when recently asked about the movie losing its best picture nomination to “Crash”: “I mean, what was ‘Crash’?”

As Lucy so astutely puts it, opulence and a generalized sense of ease are great, but love has to be on the table, too.

As Elie astutely points out, even an artist as outwardly estranged from religious life as Warhol carried with him the lessons of the Polish Byzantine Order of his youth.

Generously illustrated with work from throughout Crumb’s career, “Crumb” is an artist biography that astutely connects the work to the life story without forcing or simplifying anything.

That said, a trifecta, if astutely managed, does open the way for the possibility of major legislative initiatives.