Word: egos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...becomes secondary in the film. Penn Warren’s narrator invokes moral ambiguity and empathy; Law annoys the audience with his poor Southern accent, lack of emotions, and unnaturally waxy skin. James Gandolfini truly disappoints as politician Tiny Duffy, simply adding a weak Southern accent to his alter ego of Tony Soprano. Kate Winslet’s awkward bangs and dye-job are more memorable than her portrayal of pseudo-femme fatale Anne Stanton; as her supposedly honorable brother, Mark Ruffalo’s limp presence seems equally superfluous to the central plot. BOTTOM LINE: The filmmakers...
...poor dear. Pinker may flirt successfully with psychology, neurobiology, and evolutionary theory, but his class is jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Le sigh. But on the bright side: Pinker’s brain is as big as his mullet, if not as big as his ego, he’s a dynamic, entertaining lecturer, and he plays bizarre clips of himself and cute toddlers that feature Alan Alda for literally no reason. TFs of varying degrees of competency do the dirty work of actually conveying the nuts and bolts of information, and are generally helpful...
...carpet, hoping that September in Canada is a harbinger of February in California. Warning to the stars: You may be upstaged by the fake-umentary Death of a President, which imagines George Bush's assassination, or have your party crashed by Sacha Baron Cohen's crazed Kazakh alter ego, Borat...
...class at Harvard that every student is forced to take and horror stories about type-A preceptors abound, you just might learn something. And if you already think you’re a brilliant writer, you’ll probably get the most out of Expos, which deflates your ego along with your grades but forces you to take your writing to the next level...
...first appearance onstage at the top of a lavish Hello Dolly staircase - with his head cut off by the top of the proscenium. It's a fitting way to get things started, since Fame Becomes Me, his slick, scattered, very funny new Broadway musical, is all about showbiz ego being cut down to size. Short calls it a one-man show - but five terrific performers are on hand to share the spotlight (and on occasion upstage him). He bills it as the story of his life - troubled childhood, years of hoofing in Broadway chorus lines, the inevitable drug-fueled crash...