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...vehicle or anonymous the surrounding players. Most of Hutton's movies, which typically cast her as the good-time gal whose bravado masks her innocence, were at best inconsequential; and her costars in these modest endeavors ranged from grouchy John Lund to the craggy leprechaun Barry Fitzgerald, from hysterical geek Eddie Bracken to bulky Sonny Tufts. (Sonny Tufts??) The paucity of registered masterpieces of complementary star power simply proved her appeal. Audiences paid to see her propriety-defying shenanigans, in the implicit belief that any Hutton performance - squeezing as it did every ounce of life from her slim, sturdy body...
...commercials playing last night on every TV network in North America, all the clips were of Ferrell. And why not? He's the star, again in the role of the overbearing underdog, the big galoot who's somehow likable. But it's Heder, the geek from Napoleon Dynamite, who's the more appealing presence, and his character who has the cleverer backstory. We learn that as a child Jimmy was adopted by a rich man (William Fichter) bent on breeding champion skaters. "When I was nine," Jimmy says, "my dad insisted I be circumcised to minimize wind resistance...
...whether teens are truly in turmoil. I think the evidence (summarized in my current review and also here) is quite clear: American teens are flourishing. Epstein has a different view. You can decide for yourself. Here are some (highly condensed and edited) excerpts from our more entertaining e-mails. Geek alert: if statistics make your eyes hurt, now's a great time to stop reading...
...MEET THE ROBINSONS Rated G Opened March 30 BLADES OF GLORY Rated PG-13 Opened March 30 ARE WE DONE YET? Rated PG Opens April 4 WHAT THE MOVIE IS ABOUT Kids find weird toys on the beach that give them strange powers. Trouble with the law ensues Orphan geek boy travels to the future to foil a plot by a nefarious man in a bowler hat Two feuding ice skaters--one rough, one gentle--must work together to have a future The family from Are We There Yet? moves to what seems like a perfect suburban house. WHAT...
...self-described film geek, Shaye, who's also an attorney and former Fulbright Scholar, founded New Line in 1967 with a plan to distribute art films. But over the ensuing 40 years, the studio has amassed a library of commercial hits including the Nightmare on Elm Street series, Rush Hour, Wedding Crashers and the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy to emerge as Hollywood's leading mini-major studio. (New Line is owned by Time Warner, which is also the parent of Time Magazine and Time.com). In that time, Shaye directed just one film, Book of Love, a bawdy...