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...from observation (and numerous professional interviews), that’s the experience of everyone else too. But besides being smart and dedicated, in the abstract, it always, always helps to know a couple of the people who are currently in power. This straight-from-Taiwan, formerly-teetotaling, deadly earnest girl never had those social networks...
...spits. The relationship between gruff, gravel-mouthed Ennis (Heath Ledger—“A Knight’s Tale”) and the more nimble Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal—“Donnie Darko”) is a fiery complicated mess from which only one earnest fact emerges: they do not love women or men, only one another. Nor are they particularly successful cowboys; their inability to keep their eyes on the sheep and off each other gets them fired. So if that’s the case, then why does it seem like every critic...
...last of his dinner in the Currier dining hall. Unscripted, Lee remains sarcastic and sharp-witted, but when talking about his thesis on heroin policy and methadone research, his just-finished presidential term at the Harvard Independent, and especially his volunteer work with teens, he sounds, of all things, earnest. Well, almost: “I have tons of fun at PBHA,” he says, “You get to meet everyone twice. First [it’s] ‘Hi, I’m Steve Lee’ and then a week later, when they...
...foursome from Texas delivered on both counts, mixing most of the songs on their recent “Gimme Fiction” LP, with at least one song from each of their past releases. Luckily for all, Spoon did not fail their ever-so-trendy minions, delivering an earnest collection of new and old favorites that owed its occasional hollowness not to the spirit of the band but to the acoustics of the venue. The band began the set with a progression of older songs, to the warm response of an audience understandably acquainted more with recent hit singles. Both...
Okay, hang on, now I’m really confused. And it’s all NBC’s fault. In what may be one of the most earnest November Sweeps stunts in recent memory, the network ran a televised debate between two fictional candidates on “The West Wing” last Sunday—live. Clearly, NBC is desperately trying to re-energize the veteran series. Apparently I’m not the only one who misses the marvelous alliteration of “West Wing Wednesday.” Sweeps stunt aside, the show?...