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...mind you, as the sort of crazed, braying idiot that Sandler’s been playing with fair consistency ever since his “Saturday Night Live” days, but as the deadpan-voiced everyman with the sweetly game smile that he’s tended to play in his past films’ quieter scenes. Here, he plays Barry Egan, a blue-suited salesperson with a warehouse office, seven emasculating sisters and a problem with emotional stability. Sandler’s performance is finely modulated, its simmering tenor punctuated by hilarious bursts of rage and passion. It?...
...Bruce Springsteen is the voice of Everyman. He may live in a mansion up on the hill, but he knows exactly how I'm feeling." GEORGE ZAVERDAS Los Angeles...
...coming out of seclusion?not directing, but reviving his 20-year career as China's onscreen Everyman. Why is Jiang spending so much time in front of the camera instead of behind it? "I'm just making movies I like and doing favors for friends," he explains, not too convincingly. "I'm in no rush," he continues. "So far, I've directed a film after every major stage in my life." In the Heat of the Sun (1994) capped off the wide-eyed sexual exuberance of his 20s, and Devils followed a passion for modern Chinese history he developed...
Weezer is on a major label and has sold millions of albums, but despite these sins the band is beloved by emo fans, largely because Cuomo is an emo Everyman. After Weezer sold 3.9 million copies of its first two albums, Cuomo abandoned music, went to Harvard and put himself through an extremely painful surgery to even the lengths of his legs. When he realized that Harvard was not a cure for feelings of social inadequacy, Cuomo returned to Weezer and started banking song after song. What does Weezer's success prove? That emo kids--who pride themselves...
...reserved, brooding performance may have played a role in enticing moviegoers beyond the film's core audience of young males. The very qualities that until now have kept Maguire from becoming a bigger star are integral to his portrayal of the unassuming student Peter Parker. "Tobey's an Everyman," says producer Laura Ziskin. "He's adorable, but he's not the classic hunk. He's not a model. He looks like an ordinary kid." Somehow, Maguire's quiet ordinariness gives a glimpse of his character's roiling inner life. "He doesn't really act," says Raimi. "He just...