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Days in Paris — which she wrote, directed and stars in — is significantly
different than Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, the two chatty,
European-set relationship pictures she’s made with Ethan Hawke and director
Richard Linklater.
photographer Marion (Delpy), and American interior designer Jack (Adam
Goldberg, above right), as they attempt to re-infuse their relationship with romance on the
end leg of a European vacation. But the combination of
offbeat parents and a number of flirtatious ex-boyfriends, along with the
natural language barrier, make for choppy waters.
autobiographical, even though she and Goldberg used to date. “We were together for
a short time, [but] truly, to me, it didn’t have much influence on the film — maybe
more for him than me,” Delpy says. “For me, I’m very detached. When it’s over,
it’s totally another world,” she says, adding a swooshing sound for emphasis.
mill. “I’ve always liked Adam for the idea of putting him in a movie more than
being with him,” Delpy adds with a laugh. Then there’s a small pout of
reflection. “I shouldn’t say that. He’s not going to be happy about that.”
Jesus. And one wonders why some folks are leery of dating actors
and actresses…
 going wild in typical adolescent Hollywood ways — star as the titular 12-year-old twins in this show, who live a charmed, shared, hijinks-filled life atop the swank Tipton Hotel in Boston with their mother Carey (Kim Rhoades), a lounge singer. Ashley Tisdale co-stars as Maddie, a down-to-Earth Tipton snack counter girl who moonlights as the pair’s babysitter, while Brenda Song co-stars as London Tipton, the wealthy, show-off daughter of the hotel’s owner.</p>
<p>Though <b>the inclusion of such a winkingly named heiress would seem to set up the series for plenty of <i>au curant</i> social commentary, it’s done more for purposes of contrast, obviously</b>, as this shaggy, genial show has no particular axe to grind. It’s more concerned, honestly, with <b>setting up the Sprouse twins as a sort of two-headed Zack Morris for the “tween” set</b>. Not constrained by notions of class, Zack and Cody blithely treat the hotel as their own personal playground, often times much to an exasperated Maddie’s consternation. This DVD, sub-titled <i>Sweet Suite Victory</i>, collects three of the show’s episodes, and finds the brothers running against one another for class president at school and Maddie competing for a Sweet 16 birthday party. Presented in 1.33:1 full screen with a Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound audio track, <b>the disc comes with a brief gag reel of bloopers and outtakes, as well as an interactive trivia game</b> where co-star Song tests audience familiarity through a series of questions about the show.</p>
<p><b>Pitched in the same sort of super-demonstrative style, but a bit less enamored with its own cuteness</b>, <i>Cory in the House</i> centers around the entrepreneurial schemnig of Cory Baxter (Kyle Massey, above right), who finds himself rubbing elbows with the Washington D.C. elite when his father Victor (Rondell Sheridan, a ringer for <a href=)
NBC’s affably gape-mouthed Ron Mott) becomes the personal chef to the president (John D’Aquino). Alongside his friends (Jason Dolley and Maiara Walsh, above left), Cory works up a few money-making schemes while also chatting up the president, who seems to have a lot of free time.
Though it sounds wonkish and severely defined by its subject