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Just as the camera reveals that Kirk is sitting on a cheap lawn-chair and not a log or a bench, a plane roars overhead, bringing home the point that this movie is not afraid of trading in subtlety for loud, obvious humor. In fact, the opening scene couldn’t fit the film itself more perfectly. Like Kirk’s billboard, the film sets audiences up for a promising scene, then pulls back to reveal the seams...
...Afraid of Jenny McCarthy?" [March 8]: McCarthy's activism has merit. Instead of touting statistics based on studies that may not be asking the right questions, the medical community should view autism through a multifaceted lens and catch up to parents who already...
...doing odd jobs and taking care of their German Shepherd, Mahler. She'll even do errands for Roger, who doesn't drive (an act of civil disobedience in L.A.). Florence is sloppily generous with her body - sleeping, it seems, with whoever asks - and at the same time is afraid to ask for much for herself, even her overdue paycheck. Whenever she has to merge into traffic, she mutters a timid little prayer - "Are you going...
...failure of females to seek out and take necessary risks.” The solution, she argues, is to change our expectations of girls’ behavior in childhood in order to encourage them to grow into brave, risk-taking adult women (who aren’t afraid to ask for a raise). While changing societal expectations about girls’ capabilities is certainly something to be promoted, there are aspects of the relationship between women and risk-taking that Hachigian’s analysis fails to capture...
...afraid of putting in a lot of work,” she says. “But it would sometimes be very daunting that no matter how much work I put in I couldn’t know for sure that my experiment would work...