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...Nearing Grace”) and Paul Dano (“Little Miss Sunshine”) complete the fast food trinity as employees at the local branch of Mickey’s, infusing teen angst with lofty activist undertones or unchecked crudeness, respectively. While most roles have at least a hollow function in the film, the most over-hyped actors play characters with no redeeming value whatsoever. Ethan Hawke’s (“Before Sunrise”) pithy role lets him communicate several assertions of idealism before peacing out of the film entirely. Avril Lavigne plays a character whose...
...Beautiful” gone horribly wrong. The video is just as strong as “Beautiful” was—tropical theme, babes, colors, rappers rapping, expensive clothes. But this time, the music sucks. On the low end, we have hollow-sounding conga that’s interesting for about 10 seconds. On the high end, we have an annoying plucked-string-type sound instead of a melody. And in between, we have Slim Thug sounding borderline-retarded on the chorus...
...Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”—but Obama looks sharp. He leans forward with a knowing smile, probably thinking about how his presidency intimations are driving the media into a frenzy. According to the dust jacket, the book is about 400 pages of hollow political drivel about bringing hope, happiness, and milk and honey back to America. The inside flap promises a few personal stories about Obama, but don’t expect anything too profound. As a potential presidential candidate, Obama has to keep things boring...
...able to take an ethical stand when they see individual injustices happening around them. But that is not enough. This outrage must be channeled into a sustained demand for the creation of a campus labor code of conduct. Unless this happens, our collective aspiration to social justice will ring hollow in the ears of generations of Harvard workers to come...
...this is to say that the film, as an aesthetic object created for pop-culture consumption, is nothing short of gorgeous. But at the same time, it feels about as fleeting as the 80s glam-rock symphony that pervades it—delightful in its transience, but somehow ultimately hollow. It’s not that the cast can really be blamed for this lack of emotional identifiability; quite on the contrary, Schwartzman and Dunst play incredibly well off each other as a quirky, awkward young couple, and Dunst is, as always, at her best when quietly channeling a vaguely...