Anthony Lane is in the right place at the right time

A few quotes from the May 16th issue of The New Yorker that make me glad I live in a world where I can read his work and share his observations about the world:

From an article about Pixar:

To disentangle the dealings between Disney and Pixar is perfectly straightforward, so long as you have trained yourself by studying, say, the history of Anglo-Irish relations.

and from the closing paragraph of the same article --

But what do they know, these super-educated Peter Pans, up in the Bay Area, hammering out their perfectionist fables, high on Cocoa Puffs and single malt?

and from a review of Thor:

Some gods have all the luck. When the hero of "Thor" plummets to Earth, from a far corner of the cosmos, in a storming thunderbolt, the first thing he sees upon waking is the face of Natalie Portman. Not a sheep, or a branch of Subway, or a rainy day in Pittsburg but, I repeat, Natalie Portman.