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...plus holding down a job--and, of course, she's getting married next week. Or the guy who's finishing up his thesis while directing a play and running his own nonprofit organization-and occasionally lobbying on Capitol Hill. They are the Supermen and Wonderwomen. We can't be jealous of them, because they're always so pleasant. Publicly, we say they're "amazing." Privately, we show the article to our roommates and tell each other that these people must be psychotic. But secretly, we look at our own schedules and think, "What am I doing wrong...
...Kurt Cobain-ish seriousness, then shifts into the light-hearted teenage chorus "I wanna get cheeky with ya, I wanna get squeakly inside ya--lying through your teeth for a week!" on "Squeaky." If you come to Stupid, Stupid, Stupid with certain antigravity expectations, these lyrics will make you jealous. Distancing themselves from their subject matter through sarcasm, Black Grape come over to the audience, throwing a post-rock party where drugs, ex-girlfriends, and guitar solos are just instruments for the bands to play...
Hollywood is volatile and jealous. But it is loyal to the little man it calls Charlie. Had City Lights been a failure, Hollywood would have been bitterly depressed. But Hollywood was not depressed. Though City Lights is a successful silent challenge to the talkies, its success derives from the little man with the hat and mustache. Critics agree that he, whose posterior would be recognized by more people throughout the world than would recognize any other man's face, will be doing business after talkies have been traded in for television...
Although it places an unfair burden on a child, many parents unwittingly pressure students to carry out their own unfulfilled dreams. The mere fact that their children are attending Harvard may cause parents to feel jealous or want to adopt their children's experiences as their own. Perhaps they just want to visit, genuinely wanting to hear every detail of every day of college life...
...Down!: they give you three movies' worth of plot in a fast 100 minutes or so. His sensuous, delirious new film, Live Flesh, has plenty. Victor is involved with two women, Clara and Elena (the sorcerous Francesca Neri), both of whom are married to jealous policemen. The story (based on a Ruth Rendell novel) begins in 1970 with a prostitute giving birth to Victor on a Madrid bus and, within half an hour, doles out drugs, sex, a triangular gun battle and a paraplegic policeman (Javier Bardem) who plays basketball in the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona...