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...topped, ex-jock vegetarian from East Texas, or because other than School of Rock's $81 million box-office take, his movies don't make much money, people think of him as the official spokesman for the slacker generation. "I had my chance to do that, and my instinct was to back away. 'Kurt Cobain just died, do you want to go on ABC tonight?' No, I don't. I don't want to speak for my generation that doesn't want to be spoken for," he says. "I'm an introvert...
...parent of three, Linklater can understand that instinct, but thinks it's sad. Losing, after all, is common, whether it's not getting to make the Texas high school football movie Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg, second cousin of the book's author, got to make it), or having the western that you're still proud of bomb, or watching John Kerry lose an election. "Most of us are losers most of the time, if you think about it," he says...
...sheer scale. Mercifully, the atrocities in London were a fraction of the human cost of 9/11. And the second was related to that but not entirely explained by it. Americans often react to crises with action and emotion. They see a problem and want to fix it. Brits' reflexive instinct at such times is often calm and steady endurance. In London last week, the immediate quiet was perhaps the most striking thing--followed by an insistence on normality. "Work's over, but there's little chance of getting home right now," one Brit e-mailed me. "Most...
...people sipping their pints happily. Nice one, al-Qaeda--you profess to be from a teetotal religion, and you've given the pub trade a massive midweek boost." My sister in the London suburbs looked after a boy whose mom was unable to get home from work. Her first instinct? She made him a cup of tea. My father, after I called to check up, wryly described the mass murder as "not nice." One Brit blogger cited another pub scene where in the middle of the day, two young men were sitting beneath a TV screen with images of carnage...
...human character under pressure. The theft of a minivan; thousands of people left behind to die as tripods approach the ferry; and the descent into apparent madness by Ogilvy (Tim Robbins), one of Ferreira’s acquaintances during his flight from the aliens, all show how the instinct to survive can generate repulsive behavior...