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...Eager faces full of laughter greeted his smallest quip, but more impressive were the church-service nods that broke out among the crowd when he talked about America's place in history. "Why me? And why us?" he asked in the voice of an American Everyman. "The only answer is, because destiny put you in this place in history, in this moment in time, and the task is yours to do." A few hardboiled pols wiped away tears...
There is another notable area in which contemporary society intrudes. Agent Smith and his cohorts wear dark suits and ties: they're very neat, one undistinguishable from another. These characters were made to look like "the Everyman, anonymous," says Barrett. They also look like that very 21st century villain, the corporate criminal. --By Michele Orecklin
...talk to her again?" "No," he deadpans. "Eventually I'm going to have to say, 'It's O.K., Mom, let go. Head for the light.'" Like most stand-ups, Lopez as an actor is no Daniel Day-Lewis; he's not even Daniel Stern. Yet he makes his beleaguered Everyman--stooped and half-grimacing, as though he eternally expects an anvil to fall on him--funny but affecting...
...They are everyman and everydog. Cartoon lovers embraced Wallace and Gromit when Nick Park created them out of Plasticine for three stop-motion animated shorts (A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave), two of which won Oscars. Here was the definitive English couple, manacled to each other for life: Wallace, a bachelor with a love for cheese and a weakness for inventing things that blow up, and Gromit, his silent pet, indentured servant and reluctant savior. Next year they'll star in The Great Vegetable Plot, Park's first feature film since the delicious Chicken...
...celebrity sheen seems to vanish. But when I ask him how much his life actually resembles that of a glorious jet-setting DJ, he answers “80 percent” matter-of-factly enough to douse the glimpse I might have had of an everyman who just happens to enjoy spinning records. Oakenfold’s living the life of a superstar and enjoying it. I venture to wonder how he feels about being called a sellout...