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...result, this relaunch seems geared to find the middle ground: inoffensive hip-hop. Nothing typifies this attitude more than “Mr. Niceguy,” which asserts that Smith is, in fact, a nice guy. But Smith doesn’t want people to mistake nice for soft; in fact, he is a nice guy who will fight back when prodded. He might even—shudder with me, dear reader—buy Wendy Williams’ radio station and fire...
...order to show us the other, niceguy side of Hoskins' character, we meet his daughter who grows to love him through a series of secret meetings, and his best friend, a jovial mechanic with eccentric marketing ideas and a penchant for stories of the underworld. George tells his friend stories of his own life, pretending that he has invented them. These relationships are completely gratuitous to the film's plotline, and heighten your sneaky feeling that Mona Lisa is little more than a star-vehicle for Hoskins...
Martha G. Finnemore '81, another IRC board member, says the organization, up until recently, was split into two camps -- "the niceguy-organization view and the high-powered and ambitious view. A couple of weeks ago," Finnemore says, "I was upset enough to resign...
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