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...football player and the rosebud lips of a perfect new baby; he's tough pretty. As an actor, he has the right air of secrecy to play an intriguing guy with an old knife wound under his eye. In Big Love you think of Seyfried as the smart girl tormented by the polygamy mess her dolt of a father has gotten her mother into, not the pretty girl. But she's seriously glamorized here: with her hair falling in golden waves she's a Breck girl with a decent brain. These two do have chemistry, and when a sudden rainstorm...
...women overestimate their own desirability? Is that part of it? I think they do. I talked to a lot of experts about this sort of sense of entitlement that women of our generation grew up with. I'm all for girl power and all of that, but I think that a lot of us are "yes women" to each other. We say, "You should hold out for the better guy. Oh yes, absolutely, you deserve the best." I think we do ourselves a disservice where we kind of inflate each other's egos to the point of unreality. Guess what...
...calm I previously felt devolved into a broadening grin, then a suppressed giggle, then burgeoning self-consciousness at my inappropriate response to her humiliation. Rather than feel bad for the poor girl, standing alongside her dad with the beautiful baritone, my sisters and I started laughing. At first our laughter was controlled, almost squelched. But once one of my sisters released an indelicate, indecorous snort, my control waned. I started laughing so hard that I quaked. I held my hair in front of my face and pinched my legs, but no matter how hard I bit down on my lower...
...both the familiarity of raunchiness for hilarity's sake and the innocence of expression. From this dynamic, the most memorable moments are born: an entire number dedicated to the idea of a monkey riding a speedboat constructed around the theme of "Broadway musicals"; the hilarity of "What Kind of Girl Is She?" as Heidi and Susan both imagine that the other "might try to steal my husband! She might try to have my baby!"; and the earnest resistance in the face of critics and the breezily creative as embodied in the line "a little part of me just wants...
...general, if not pathological, sense of social and political captivity? The closest rival Lost has in Iran is Prison Break, a TV series that had only a moderate following in the U.S. Before that, there was Jewel in the Castle, a melodrama from South Korea about a young girl working as an indentured cook in the royal kitchen of an ancient monarch who manages to free herself after a lifetime of struggle. But Lost and its mysteries appeal even more strongly to Iranians. "In Iran, people are drawn to stories that are unpredictable," observes Masoud. Sometimes to excess...