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Conveniently, each of the main characters embodies at least one pressing "issue." Vicki (Janeane Garofalo) works at the Gap and is scared that she has AIDS. Sammy is gay and about to come out to his mom. Troy (Ethan Hawke) is in an alternative band called Hey, That's My Bike. Michael is an ambivalent corporate climber. Leleina looks for a job at a fast-food restaurant after losing her internship at a moronic TV show. All the characters seem to have divorced parents and a deep emotional attachment to some aspect of pop culture...
Given these sketchy outlines, Stiller and Garofalo do the best jobs at making truly hip and interesting pop culture references and fleshing their characters out into funny, believable people. Stiller's Michael could have easily been a weasel, but his technological ineptitude (he still doesn't quite have the knack of driving while talking on the cellular phone), his sense of humor, and the feeling that he really cares for Leleina, make him into a nice, normal...
...shape it into dialogue that is pointed and full of unforced observations. Director Ben Stiller keeps things crisp, no small matter in a movie that features a fair amount of aimless activity and just plain lying around. The latter takes place in the "maxipad" Lelaina shares with Vickie (Janeane Garofalo), who sometimes imagines her own funeral as a scene from Melrose Place ("chokers and halter tops"), Sammy (Steve Zahn), who is gently receding into the wallpaper, and Troy (Ethan Hawke), who is a philosopher-couch potato, fired from his job as a newsstand clerk for eating a Snickers bar without...
Christopher J. Garofalo '94, the Leverett Housedelegation chair, appointed Dimitra Koutsoukos '96to fill a vacancy in the six-person delegation...
...Garofalo, the chair of the student affairscommittee, also reported that council membersbrought the issues of calendar, Core program andhousing lottery reform and the creation of aninterhouse facebook to the attention of variousfaculty standing committees...