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...Take Jacob, for instance. He was not always the grim and asexual idealist he appears to be. At one time he was a doper and a drunk idling his life away in third-world squalor. It is why Helene (Jorgen's sensual yet sensible wife, limpidly played by Sidse Babett Knudsen) long ago left him. And why she is startled to encounter him as a new self, stern and rectitudinous. It's the same way with Jorgen. Underneath his affability there is a willful and angry self-made man - and a brutality that is openly manifested in a drunken restaurant...
...smile when you hear it. Get ready: two top figure skaters - blond, winsome Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) and bad-boy Chazz Michael Michaels (Ferrell) - get into a brawl on the winners' stand and are forever banished from the male singles category. Three and a half years later, Chazz is drunk and disgraced impersonating a wizard in some Podunk lounge act on ice, and Jimmy is peddling sports equipment at a Ski 'n Shred. But they love skating more than they hate each other, so they agree to become the world's first male-pairs team. "As if skating wasn...
...teens are indeed in rough shape." He offers a long list of examples of what he calls "teen turmoil," everything from gang membership to drug use-all encouraged, he believes, by a pernicious teen culture that glorifies violence and substance abuse. "Attractive, trendy young people are frequently high or drunk in movies like Animal House, Requiem for a Dream, Thirteen, Weird Science, Dazed and Confused, and Clueless," he writes. Animal House? It was released in 1978. And Requiem for a Dream is probably the most mordantly anti-drug film ever made...
...should also be able to own them outright. But kids have been making better decisions in the past 20 years--drinking and drugging less and, as studies have shown, studying more. It would be perverse to reward them by saying that we now don't care if they get drunk and watch porn instead...
...robots--who are variously wealthy, clinically depressed, psychotic and gay. It swings, sometimes disconcertingly, from funny to sad and back. In one story arc a wealthy pleasure-loving cat named Ray dies and goes to hell, where he's forced to drive a 1982 Subaru Brat and gets drunk with legendary bluesman Robert Johnson at a Best Western. This kind of thing never happens to Garfield. The characterization in Achewood is so thorough it's almost novelistic, to the point where it breaks the frame--the strip's creator, Chris Onstad, maintains blogs in the voices of his characters. Achewood...