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...Skip" Ellsworth Burroughs IV (Rob Lowe), an academy lifer who, well, the name says it all. But by senior year, the local chugs in and Skip finds himself rooming with Jonathan Ogner (Andrew McCarthy), a bright it somewhat unworldly scholarship student First day out, the preppie picks on the nerd and Class seems to be shaping up into a celluloid bildungstoman...
Superman's personality has been threatening to go splitsville ever since he was saddled with the alter ego of Clark Kent, ace reporter and consummate nerd of the Daily Planet. Clark is every clumsy, sweet-souled teen-age boy who ever fantasized scoring the big touchdown or scoring with the prom queen; Superman is the 6-ft. 4-in. embodiment of that dream. This man is both men, hulk and hunk, and no telephone booth is big enough to house the inherent contradictions...
...Christine, his latest novel. King chooses to make horrible the centerpiece of American life, the automobile. Arnie Cunningham, the archetypal nerd, sees a rusted-out '58 Plymouth Fury sitting on the street one day and falls in love. He's handy with tools and decides to fix it up. Naturally, he gets skinned on the deal by the crazy old misanthrope who sells him the car, but he carts the wreck off, finds a garage where he can keep it, since his parents refuse to let him park it in front of their house, and begins to work...
Public reaction was swift and devastating--the largest out cry Watt has stirred up in his far-from-placid two years in office, a department of official reported. Disc jockeys across the country inveighed against Watt-one called him "the administration's chief nerd." The Beach Boys, the most prominent group to play at the Fourth of July concert in past years, issued a statement that declared. "After Watt's remarks, we believe the Department of the Interior has attracted the wrong element...
...leading talk-show host to give him his big break, let him do on the air the stand-up routine he has been polishing these many months in his Hoboken basement. To these ends he stalks Jerry not as an assassin, but as a nudge and a nerd. The two characters are wonderfully contrasted. Robert De Niro's Rupert has a cheerfully deranged imperviousness to traditional class distinctions and psychological boundary lines that makes you laugh even as it makes you cringe for him. As the object of his desire, Jerry Lewis gives a shrewdly disciplined performance...