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Carter Duryea (Topher??Grace) is a corporate comer. At 26, he has just had a major success marketing dinosaur-shaped cell phones to children. Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) is a stayer. At 51, he's the nice guy who successfully runs ad sales for a sports magazine. There's no good reason--other than heedless youth worship--for the clueless Carter to replace steady Dan when the soulless multinational Globecom buys his publication and demotes him to playing "wingman" to Carter...
...enchanting. It is scary because Duryea’s character at the beginning seems to be the best of what one can hope for in going from college to the corporate world: he is in a leadership role (a role given him, hilariously, because of his success in creating Dinosaur cell phones for the 2-6 demographic), he has a beautiful wife (Selma Blair in a somewhat demeaning cameo playing her Legally Blonde bitch) and oodles of money...
...immaturity can be traced running through the lyrics and song structures of the album. Exciting musical ideas are toyed with on some of the songs, but the lack of balance can make for frustrating listening. “Seriously, Get A Towel” features a deadpan recitation of dinosaur names and a sophomoric title. Even “Satan Says,” one of the album’s highlights, manages to sound paradoxically similar to that haunting song from Home Alone sloppily sung in a round by a hardcore audience, fists pumping up toward an ornate Christmas...
While most students were sleeping off Harvard-Yale hangovers two weeks ago, University President Lawrence H. Summers was toasting his middle age amid the company of family, friends and dinosaur skeletons at the Harvard Museum of Natural History...
...festive mood” when the Callbacks arrived at 9:30 p.m. “The only awkward thing,” she said, “was that...right behind where we were singing and people were giving speeches there was this enormous, 50-foot long dinosaur skeleton...