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...That?s the case with Sarah, in which Peter finds himself devastated by the departure of his longtime girlfriend, (Kristen Bell) for another man. He (and we) will soon discover that her best acting is the real-life kind, wherein she fairly convincing portrays a nice and sympathetic young woman when, in fact, she?s hiding an icily ambitious nature under that mask. Before that happens, we have the pleasure of watching Peter crack up - can?t work (he?s a television composer), can?t sleep, can?t eat, can?t tidy up his apartment. Off he goes...
...honor student who is bad at sports and gets stomachaches before parties, but I am actually capable of horrific violence, passionate lovemaking and savage indifference to a tribe of orcs with my +2 broadsword. I wore that chain every day, from sixth grade to 17th grade, when my new girlfriend told me I had to take it off if I wanted to have sex. And when you're a struggling 22-year-old with two roommates, you don't hold on to sentimentality in the face of such demands. I would have taken out my gold fillings...
...comedy, mixed with Apatow’s penchant for ribald laughs, vulgar language, and nudity. Segel plays Peter Bretter, a grown-up version of his lovable oaf character from “Freaks and Geeks.” Peter, a struggling composer, is devastated when his beautiful, TV-star girlfriend, Sarah Marshall, breaks up with him. To get over his ex, Peter takes the advice of his brother and jets off to Hawaii. Upon his arrival, he learns that Sarah and her new boyfriend, a famous singer, are also spending the week there. With Segel writing his own scenes, it?...
...Fire’ in a crowded room, as Ulinksy once put it, and then took over. Well, Mark was a fucker too.” When the Vice President (an unnamed but depicted Al Gore) loses the 2000 election, Keith retracts his marriage proposal to his then-girlfriend Jillian; he cannot conceive of marriage as a possibility in the wake of political disaster. This is the only perspective the novel presents. Though Gessen implicitly acknowledges that this perspective is flawed and at times ridiculous (as when Mark likens his sexual fumblings to the German communist Karl Liebnicht?...
...When Vale (Richard Jenkins, “Six Feet Under”) reluctantly travels to a conference in New York City, he enters the apartment he owns (but rarely visits) to find two strangers living there. Illegal immigrants Tarek (Haaz Sleiman, “24”) and his girlfriend Zainab (Danai Gurira) discover that they’ve been renting the place from a scam artist. They agree to leave, but Vale, feeling sympathetic, invites them to stay. The interactions between Vale and his guests possess both the awkwardness and the warmth that such a situation would invite...