Word: mensch
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...flight attendants, the plush anonymity of hotel rooms. What you might call loneliness, he calls self-reliance. This is threatened by a young corporate rival (Anna Kendrick), who wants to save money by reining in the flyboys and firing people by Skype. Suddenly Ryan, by contrast, is almost a mensch...
...Shane "Daddy." (The old joke is that in horror movies, the African-American characters always get killed first. Here they are saddled with such unpleasant stereotyping that being taken out in the first act would seem like a favor.) Dave grudgingly agrees to the loan because he's a mensch but reminds Shane of all the financial trouble he's in. Does anyone bring up those finances when it comes to the bill for Eden? No, because they need Shane and Trudy for comic relief and to make the movie seem less like a portrait of whining white upper-middle...
...produce the film, so it’s no surprise the movie strikes a hagiographic tone. Biggie either learns from misdeeds (neglecting his young daughter is bad!) or explains them away (dealing crack to a pregnant woman is just part of the game!). The movie lionizes Biggie as a mensch-in-the-making, yet it also bizarrely cites the opening lines to his track “Suicidal Thoughts.” “When I die, fuck it, I wanna go to hell,” he rapped, “’Cause...
...nightclub. “It don’t matter ’cause you’re here now / And the music you’re enjoying / So for the next couple minutes / Baby I’ma be your boyfriend,” he sings. What a mensch! If he only he weren’t such a lazy writer. Of course, it’s cool that he wants to make women happy and occasionally empower them; the problem is there’s none of the complexity that made his previous albums surprisingly good. The playful...
...Praise Famous Men and would go on to write the novel A Death in the Family and the African Queen screenplay with John Huston. (He also worked vagrantly with Manny on a never-completed script.) Agee was the alcoholic Episcopalian golden boy to Manny's cranky Jewish mensch, and that may have stoked jealousy and resentment. How was Manny to know that Agee, however lauded in his time (he died at 51 in 1955), would in the long run be the white elephant to Manny's termite? No, let's be fairer: Charlie Chaplin, equal parts genius and sentiment...