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...Hand-shake? Kiss on the cheek? What if I go in for the hug but she extends her hand for a shake? Either I’m a loser for mistakenly thinking that we’re tight, or she’s a jerk for not showing me any love. Greetings are like a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors, where your success depends entirely on what the other person decides to do, but you don’t know what they are going to try until the moment of action. It’s just not fair...
...whatever questions you have, mundane or bizarre. I’ve got 1,000 words every Monday in this fine paper, and believe me, I’ll need help each and every week, so ask away. Ask me how to pass your classes; ask me whether that cute jerk is worth your time. Ask me which of the wines that C’est Bon offers is the least likely to embarrass you on a romantic picnic for two. Ask me which professors I think have hairpieces. Ask me about the benefits of term life insurance...
Thus, the play’s creators set out with an unenviable task: create a musical about the best novel about music, find an actor to match the classic lovable jerk who is Cusack’s trademark, and craft scenes that evoke such pathos as Black’s finale performance of “Let’s Get it On.” The play’s book, written by David Lindsay-Abaire, abridges and bastardizes Hornby’s work; the cast, directed by Walter Bobbie, lacks any semblance of vocal or acting talent...
These days, the two of us are on better terms. In the aftermath of our breakup, he admitted that he treated me “horribly” and was a “huge jerk.” Now 3,000 miles apart, we still bicker over politics and feminism on the phone, but we’ve come to accept that we’ll always have our differences...
...promising second call. Left largely untold is what happened next in Hughes' life: a breakdown, the suicide at age 34 of his sculptor son Danton, his happy third marriage to American artist Doris Downes and his rise as a celebrity art historian and author of, among other masterpieces, A Jerk on One End, a charming volume about his lifelong passion for fishing. Clearly, another memoir is required. But first Hughes may have to finish the book on Leonardo and wrestle further with the demons that drove him to become such an implacable enemy of cant, mediocrity and the quiet life...