Dr. Z's Power Rankings: Pats make late-season run; Jags falling despite win (Sports Illustrated) Can I humbly request a vote of sympathy? On Dec. 22 the NY Wine Press holds its annual Christmas Champagne Luncheon, featuring 12 vintage dated grande marque Champagnes, including Dom Perignon and Pol Roger Cuvee Winston Churchill, and many other high quality numbers. If the New York City Transit strike continues, guess which two people you know will not attend? Oh sure, we could drive in and try
AEON FLUX 1/2 (San Jose Mercury News) Four-hundred years in the future, Charlize Theron is an ace assassin who has been ordered to kill the oppressive leader (Marton Csokas) of Earth's only surviving city. Inspired by an animated MTV series, this sci-fi yarn is good looking but empty-headed and empty-hearted. -- (Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel.) PG-13 (violence, sexual content). 1 hour, 26 minutes.
