Word: boyness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Imagine you adore a blue-eyed young man with a pert nose and a soft wave of brown hair, and so you get your parents to take you to his latest movie, Me and Some Dead Guy Who Was Famous Once and the boy is even cuter than usual, but there's also this big guy, with crazy eyes and much less docile hair, who talks about Shakespeare (kill me now), insults everybody - the cute boy worst of all - and chews cigars and sometimes when he talks you see actual spit coming out of his mouth...
...admission, the obvious choice. "There was a reasonable amount of skepticism when I took over the second movie," he says. "I understand that. I directed American Pie. I would be worried too." But after a 2½-hour phone conversation with Meyer - a fan of Weitz's About a Boy - she gave him her blessing...
...Coupling his ability to mimic LaFontaine to a repertoire of actor imitations, from Keanu Reeves to Al Pacino, Francisco is perhaps the only stand-up comedian who can act out an entire movie trailer live. His most famous faux cinematic concoction is “Little Tortilla Boy,” an action flick starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a street vendor trying to protect his tortilla business from the mob. The “trailer” ends with Francisco beatboxing a pounding bass while running in place in slow motion from an invisible explosion—showmanship that offers...
...meditations represent more than the lecherous fantasies of an old man. Early in the novel, Ismael recalls the dire circumstances in which he and his wife first met; in the bus station of a nearby town they both witnessed the shooting of a man by an eleven year-old boy. Rushing nauseated to the lavatory, Ismael walked in on his future wife sitting on the toilet and was instantly transfixed: “… her eyes like lighthouse beams over the hitched up island, the join of her legs, the triangle of her sex—indescribable animal...
...criticism - come at an awkward time for Russia's police. In Siberia last month, two police officers allegedly committed separate murder-suicides, leaving a total of five people dead, including themselves. A third policeman in Tuva has been charged with using excessive force after shooting a 17-year-old boy dead in what he claims was self-defense. The slayings came just months after the arrest of a Moscow police officer accused of drunkenly shooting nine people in a supermarket, killing two. (See pictures of Hillary Clinton in Russia...