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Anderson’s story begins with Barry in the dumps, burdened with a trying job and a smothering family, and goes on to track his journey towards happiness and fulfillment. Barry??€™s catalyst for this journey comes in the form of Lena Leonard (Emily Watson), with whom Barry becomes so smitten that he follows her on a trip to Hawaii. At the same time, he gets to exercise his developing backbone when he becomes the target of a extortionist phone sex operator who dispatches goons to shake Barry down for cash...
...knows the difference between fair and unfair characterizations, he understands the dimensions of forgiveness, and he’s enamored with the potential for magic in the everyday. Most of all, he believes in the self-improving power of love; it is love that provides a channel for Barry??€™s rage, turning him into a kind of superman—focused, empowered, yet dependent on Lena for his strength...
...Barry??€™s evolution spurs a change in our perceptions of Sandler as well. In Punch-Drunk Love’s first half, Barry holds our interest far more as a temperamental volcano than as a patient, low-key professional; it’s hilarious to watch him suddenly go on a window-breaking rampage, or dissolve into quiet sobs without warning in mid-conversation, or silently walk into a bathroom and rip it to shreds with his bare hands. But as he falls for Lena, Barry??€™s energy grows to serve a normal, workable emotion...
While Bullock and Blumberg each swept their matches, with Blumberg preserving his undefeated mark, Barry??€™s was much more hotly contested. He jumped out to an 8-6 lead in the first game, but then hit a couple of poor shots, allowing his opponent to get back into and eventually take the game...
...film studios have prudently put on hold any completed films that may re-traumatize audiences or are editing out egregiously offensive material. While Collateral Damage, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest (and hopefully last) terrorism and vengeance action film, and Big Trouble, Disney’s adaptation of Dave Barry??€™s nuclear bomb on a plane novel, are indefinitely on hold, the ending of Men In Black 2 is being rewritten, advertisements for Spiderman and The Last Castle are being revamped, and all films set in New York (Serendipity, Streets of New York) are being retooled. Needless...