Word: boyhoods
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...setting, scenes with actual extras in them. But he?s still a guy making two-shots of people talking about their troubles, working them through on the basis of faulty information and silly suppositions. Case in point: Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck). He draws underground comic books with his boyhood pal Banky (Jason Lee). Then he meets Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), also a comix artist, and falls into obsession. The problem is, she?s a lesbian. Well, nobody?s perfect. And, indeed, she?s not perfectly gay, for eventually she succumbs to Holden?s passion. This makes him feel terrific...
...tears at me to say he is fooling himself--since he did teach me how many degrees are in a triangle and other such trivia--but I think he is. When he roots for the Los Angeles Dodgers, he is rooting for a different team than that of his boyhood memory; the team he follows he has only been a fan of since Los Angeles bought itself a baseball team...
...year-old growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area when he saw his first George Lucas film, the 1971 science-fiction feature THX-1138. So when the story called for spending a day at Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, he jumped at the chance to interview his boyhood hero and watch him put the finishing touches on the "special edition" rerelease of the Star Wars trilogy. Handy remembers well when the original film came out in 1977. "I must have seen it five times that summer," he says. And how does the experience of viewing the movie today...
...serious roles ("And the Oscar goes to--Billy Bob who?"). But that has been his name since his youth, in Malvern, Arkansas, where Dad was a basketball coach and Mom was a fortune teller with, Thornton says, true psychic powers. The lad was unusual even then, says his boyhood friend Tom Epperson. "My nickname for him was Silly Slob...
...Dole, a man of his word who promised the American people that he would either go to the White House or go home, is back in Russell, Kansas, living in a boyhood home that has been considerably spruced up by a contractor who specializes in the renovation of single-family photo...