Word: fraser
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starring Joe Pesci, Brendan Fraser...
Monty Kessler (Brendan Fraser) is a hyper-motivated government major who already had ten chapters of his senior thesis--on how the federal government sucks--by December. (He mentions that the thesis is 88 pages, which means the chapters average about nine pages in length--what kind of thesis is that? Never mind, though--he loses it.) The silly boy's hard drive crashes, and he does not have a backup on floppy. Rushing through the Yard to Kinko's to xerox his one printed version of the essay, he trips in the snow, and his thesis falls through...
...Brendan Fraser is wooden as Monty, but Monty is a wooden character--so in a way, this seems appropriate. While Josh Hamilton goes a little overboard as the peevish pre-med, the actors who play the other roommates give strong supporting performances. Moira Kelly is a friendly, energetic Courtney, one of the boys...yet very much a woman. And Patrick Dempsey, as Everett the WHRB deejay, is joyously lusty. Dempsey has played a debauched Harvard man before--namely, Jack Kennedy in the "Reckless Youth" miniseries. This reviewer can only hope Dempsey will play a debauched Harvard man again...
Several students were among the ticket-bearing, glamorously-dressed crowd who waited anxiously outside the Blues Bar to mingle with Hollywood celebrities Moira Kelly, Brendan Fraser and Patrick Dempsey and film director Alek P. Keshishian...
...those who missed it, two nights ago, Lemieux first threw his stick at referee Kerry Fraser from the penalty box to display his disgust at one of Fraser's calls. Then, after Fraser ejected him, he charged out of the penalty box and had to be restrained by a couple of his Penguin teammates, although he still blasted...