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...those days, there wasn’t the Internet or computers to distract people, so if you were a nerd and wanted to play with something cool, ham radio was it,” he recalls...
...Tony, in moments of crisis, has an anxiety attack or orders someone's death. In Spider-Man 3, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), the young-adult nerd with preternatural powers, gets covered in intergalactic black stickum. Once he's gooed, he's bad - bad for him, anyway, which is still better than most of us on our best behavior. He spends much of the movie trying to resist the temptation of outlawry, the nefarious fashion of basic black...
...heart-wrenching scenes. The day before she undergoes a mastectomy, Ryan transforms from calm worry to desperate hopelessness while she sits in the rain, ultimately exchanging a passionate comfort kiss with Brody.Brody, like Ryan, shows us nothing new. He’s still that loveable not-so-nerdy-looking nerd who’s quick with the one-liners.However, he fails to bring the necessary depth to a character who’s meant to acutely affect the lives of the women he meets. Brody appears as nothing more than a friendly, lovelorn jokester who is unintentionally swept up into Stewart?...
Getting sent to the Ad Board is a twisted mark of pride. You are a badass, perhaps an abuser of substances, possibly academically dishonest, and definitely not your typical Harvard nerd. Unless you’re me, that is, in which case the Ad Board officially admonishes you for failing to actually enroll in half of your classes for the spring semester...
...least a decade. That the semiotics of dorkdom have become wonderfully unclear, and that the teenage social world might be a tiny bit less stratified than it used to be. That things are so mixed up, a cool guy can become a matinee idol by pretending to be a nerd. And if Adam Brody helped make that change, by appearing in the same media that cover Paris and Britney and Lindsay, then I hope he does become an action hero. That's got to help me somehow...