Word: brat
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Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) was a have-it-all kid who, upon graduating from college, resolved to flee his family for the Alaskan wilderness. Is Christopher a truth seeker, a defiant brat or some unknowable other? Director Sean Penn, adapting the Jon Krakauer bio-book, makes no judgments. He slowly spins this into a parable of one man's need for revelation, isolation and chilly transcendence...
...jobs. Jock-turned-stage-star Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) scores a sweet gig as an assistant golf pro at the Lava Springs country club and gets jobs for his pals and girlfriend Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens). The catch: his job has been arranged by spoiled rich girl and theater brat Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale), who considers Troy her rightful boyfriend. She connives for him to duet with her in a talent show--and for Gabriella to be left out. For middle-class Troy, there are connections and a basketball scholarship--if he plays along...
...real secret of Lucille's success is Lucille, 48, who comes off as a sort of Erin Brockovich character. An Air Force brat, she waitressed nights while raising three kids, hop-scotched around the world for her ex-husband's career and eventually accomplished a remarkable feat: starting and running a successful business, as an American - and as a woman, no less - in an Islamic country. After selling cupcakes to fellow expats in Cairo, she and an Egyptian friend opened a restaurant only to see the business and the friendship go bust. She hung on, learned Arabic and read...
...example, how about a "bad-parenting surcharge." It would work like this. Suppose you come home after a hard day of work, and there is your acne-ridden, foul-smelling brat of a son--if, indeed, he is your son, which is hard to believe--playing video games with his friends. Your living room is strewn with Dorito crumbs and other detritus that doesn't bear close examining. Needless to say, the lawn has not been mowed as promised. How would you like to slug him? Or rather, how much would you like to slug him? You know you shouldn...
...Hoya, whose clear distaste for Junior's trash talking-- Mayweather labels De La Hoya "fake" and "boring," among the printable adjectives-- feeds the intrigue. "What kind of son kicks his father out of the house and leaves him in the street?" De La Hoya asks. "He's a brat that needs a reality check." These words ignite Mayweather. "Oscar doesn't need to be in me and my dad's personal business," he barks. "I'm going to say a prayer for Oscar tonight. Like I do every night...