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...modern American experience. Ambiguity and contingency mediate the relationships in “The Soul Thief,” making it difficult to separate one character from another. An unidentified narrator opens the book with a disembodied portrait of Jerome Coolberg, a mysterious genius who pervades every page of Baxter??s work without ever becoming familiar. Early on, Nathanial Mason, the uninspired and confused protagonist, encounters fellow graduate student Theresa on a park bench, where they share an awkward interlude with a homeless man before meeting the infamous Coolberg at a party. Nathanial immediately senses an uncommon...

Author: By Eric M. Sefton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baxter Questions 'Soul' | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...directorial debut, Showalter also writes and stars as Elliot Sherman a.k.a. The Baxter. A “Baxter?? is “the kind of guy you settle with because you can’t be with the one you love.” Elliot Wilbur Sherman is as exciting as toothpaste. The man reads the dictionary...

Author: By Faith O. Imafidon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...with (or at least the guy you would have ditched if you were starring in a Molly Ringwald movie)? You may not have given that first guy a second thought, but Michael Showalter remembered him. In fact, Showalter’s latest romantic comedy “The Baxter?? is all about the guy you left behind...

Author: By Faith O. Imafidon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...story of “The Baxter?? begins at the end, with an uncertain Elliot waiting for his bride on the day of his wedding. In the scenes that follow, the unglamorous Elliot narrates the events that lead him to his precarious situation at the altar. A platonic romance begins when Elliot improbably meets magazine editor Caroline Swann (Elizabeth Banks) and somehow becomes her fiancé. When Bradley Lake (Justin Theroux of “Six Feet Under” ), the love of Caroline’s life, resurfaces shortly before the couple’s wedding, poor...

Author: By Faith O. Imafidon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

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