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...She’s Out of My League” opens with a close-up of Kirk Kettner’s (Jay Baruchel) face as he delivers a well-rehearsed speech to try to get his girlfriend back. As he speaks, the camera pans out to reveal a beautiful backdrop of a green meadow surrounded by trees, adding a certain amount of potence to Kirk’s otherwise pathetic speech. However, as the camera continues to pull back, it becomes evident that Kirk is not in some idyllic mountain location, but is instead simply sitting in front...
Just as the camera reveals that Kirk is sitting on a cheap lawn-chair and not a log or a bench, a plane roars overhead, bringing home the point that this movie is not afraid of trading in subtlety for loud, obvious humor. In fact, the opening scene couldn’t fit the film itself more perfectly. Like Kirk’s billboard, the film sets audiences up for a promising scene, then pulls back to reveal the seams...
...Graf's darker side began to emerge when she was assigned to the destroyer U.S.S. Curtis Wilbur in 1997, as the executive officer (XO), or second in command. Kirk Benson, who retired from the Navy as a commander after a 20-year career, says his tour aboard the Curtis Wilbur with Graf was "the worst time in my life." Her constant berating of the crew led him to complain, he says, but nothing was done. "When I think of Holly Graf, even 12 years later, I shake," says Benson. "It was hard to imagine her as an XO, never mind...
...Bennett, chief co-sponsor of the Wyden-Bennett health proposal that was the best hope for truly market-oriented health care reform? Bennett now faces a serious nomination challenge. Once the excitement of Massachusetts subsides, who'll champion the non-CPAC-style Senators on the ballot in 2010: Mark Kirk from Illinois or Rob Portman from Ohio...
...KIRK MCCAMBLEY...