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...derisive nickname. CNN is "the Cartoon News Network." Toby, Simon's curly-haired, cherub-faced aide, is variously addressed as "Fetus Boy," "Love Actually" and "Ron Weasley." (The last is an apt epithet; as the plot will show, Toby is more than a little weasely.) Chad, a tall, thin lad on the American team, is "Young Lankenstein" and "the boy from The Shining." James Gandolfini plays a dovish U.S. General here, not a Mafia don; still, it takes giant golden gonads to have the ex-Tony Soprano called "Shrek" to his face...
...vital magic. The other, seen in flashbacks, is the brilliant, troubling Tom Riddle, Voldemort to be, whom Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) recruits from an orphanage to Hogwarts. As played at 11 by Hero Fiennes Tiffin (a nephew of Ralph Fiennes, the series' Voldemort) and at 16 by Frank Dillane, the lad emits a smooth, brooding dark-star quality that makes you wish there were a parallel group of coming-of-age books about You Know Who - Darth Vader to Harry's Luke Skywalker. As other boys face the surge of puberty, so Tom and Harry feel a thrill and a shiver...
...high school boy wakes up and can't find his manhood. Literally. The family jewels have gone missing and been replaced by what girls have. Being a modern lad, he doesn't go to the doctor but rather documents his feelings about this development in an online diary, www.zack16.com, complete with video and reader comments. Each day he discovers more and more about what it's like to be female, and sure enough, after about a week and a half - or three videos - he gets a visit from Aunt Flo. You know, the monthly one - used...
...alleviate the disharmony of the world at large, we must start with the successful man rather than the unsuccessful, frustrated, or ill man.” Those chosen were Harvard men in the old sense: hale, well-adjusted sorts who kept a copy of A Shropshire Lad in their back pockets and wore blazers to lunch. For the next 72 years, through mental surveys and periodic physical checkups, their every move would be documented...
...Jeremy Patashnik '12 said he was not fooled. "[The e-mail] made a reference to "'you have to clear out your dirty laundry from your room,'" the astute lad noted. "I figured a serious maintenance request would not ask that...