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...Dupreeis the modern, or slacker, version of that story. Owen Wilson's Randolph Dupree is not contemptuous of middle-class values. He's a sweet-spirited perpetual adolescent, who has lost his job, his car and his apartment and lacks any skills the job market might conceivably require. So he moves his beanbag chair and his moose head into the tidy little craftsman bungalow inhabited by his best friend, Carl (Matt Dillon) and his new bride, Molly (Kate Hudson). He means to be helpful, but continually screws up in ways that are meant to be funny, but are, in fact...
...This puts a lot of pressure on Owen Wilson, which in this instance he's not quite up to. He given some pre-release interviews in which he pretends to be a real-life Dupree, while modestly disclaiming any particular ability as an actor. I don't believe the first claim, but I think we can all agree about the latter. This is a guy who has written three scripts with Wes Anderson - Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, which are also, come to think of it, presumptive comedies rather than the real thing. He has, as well, acted...
...Owen Wilson plays Dupree, a houseguest who doesn't know when to leave, in You, Me and Dupree...
Your image is of a guy who, despite being successful, doesn't try all that hard. Is that who you are? Maybe next to Ben [Stiller], I don't. I've done a lot of movies with him, and that became the shtick--Ben's the workaholic, Owen likes to keep things fresh by not reading the script until he shows up on set. But when I work on something, it's not like I phone it in or don't take it seriously...
Other Harvard academics who signed the petition include Meyer Professor of Middle East History E. Roger Owen and Jacqueline Bhabha, the executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies...