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Finding Forrester brings together the gruff, Salinger-like recluse author William Forrester (Sean Connery) and the 16-year-old Jamal Wallace (newcomer Rob Brown), already a fine writer himself with basketball skills to match. It takes some time, of course, for their relationship to progress through the steps of the student-mentor story formula: they spar at first, but gradually grow more comfortable with each other, talking, writing and dishing out pseudo-profound remarks that are far less interesting than the screenwriter must have thought. More than anything, their friendship appears to be based on simply spending time together, yammering...
...Tremouille is a gruff-voiced Cambridge attorney who's not new to environmental causes. He has worked on several campaigns against city zoning policies, and on other issues such as the Urban Ring--a proposal that would connect all four lines of the T with a circle line. The geese are only his latest cause...
...drab northeastern town of Easington in 1984, the year of a crippling coal strike, and Billy (Jamie Bell) is taking boxing lessons at the insistence of his gruff widower dad (Gary Lewis). But the boy really wants to dance. He's got happy feet that can drive him into a dervish fury. He finds a crabby, loving teacher (Julie Walters), who is impressed enough by his skill and spirit that she prods him to apply to the Royal Ballet school. Thus ensue the inevitable domestic disputes, softening of hard hearts and pirouettes in heroic slow motion...
...During a year of high-profile external change--an extensive $3 million renovation of Eliot and Kirkland dining halls--and stressful internal reorganization, hourly employees and managers alike say they have locked horns with Mayer because of what they claim is a gruff administrative style...
...lyrics, when they aren't flat-out, call-your-local-Congressperson offensive, can be witty. "And it seems like the media immediately/points a finger at me/so I point one back at them/but not the index or pinky," he raps on one of the album's best cuts, the gruff The Way I Am. Eminem is also fearlessly blunt at times, cruelly deriding the talents of the hottest pop stars. "Don't get me started/these f_______ brats can't sing," he raps about the boy band 'N Sync. "And Britney's garbage/What--is this bitch retarded...