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...Lonergan specializes in smart comedy-dramas of urban contemporary life, sprinkled with laughs but exploring serious moral issues, usually through the prism of a determinedly quirky central character. In "Lobby Hero," that person is Jeff (Glenn Fitzgerald), a woebegone night security guard who must decide whether to help his boss cover up the possible involvement of the boss's brother in a murder. Things get complicated when the case comes to the attention of two cops, a female rookie and her veteran partner, who are grappling with some ethical issues of their...
...goes to the actors (as Dawn, the female cop, Heather Burns has no street cred at all) and to Mark Brokaw's direction, which is too broad. But the fault lies mostly with Lonergan, who betrays his much vaunted realism with contrivance and cheap laughs at every turn. Example: Jeff, the cutely self-aware nincompoop, doesn't want to betray his boss's confidence, so he tells the whole story to Dawn by disguising it, ineptly, as a "hypothetical" case, a ruse she sees through in about five seconds. Pure sitcom schtick - like too much in Lonergan's work...
...Jeff Probst said, "The game has changed." Ogakor is as before the soap opera of choice, but now it's not just the bickering, the cliques and the Colby-tugging. Now it's the bickering, the cliques, the Colby-tugging and the Jerri watch. The former favorite has been marked for death by the dwindling Kucharians, and now it'll be a free-for-all among Elisabeth, Rodger and Nick to try and break up the enemy and save themselves...
Pettit will share the award with Yale's Jeff Dwyer, a defenseman who was also named to the Second Team...
...Yale's Jeff Hamilton was unanimously chosen the Ivy League's Player of the Year. The senior was the top scorer with 18 points in league play...