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...When we meet him, he is illegally parking his car in a campus lot. When it is impounded, he manages to break a leg trying to rescue it, which brings him into contact with Janet Hartigan (Sarah Jessica Parker), to whom he once gave a bad grade, but who is unaccountably willing to forget and forgive - a process he does not make easy for her. He does not make living with him easy for anyone. Not his super smart daughter, Vanessa (Ellen Page), doing a role reversal, in which she plays a sort of surrogate parent...
...surprisingly interesting. Ellen Page (recently of Juno ) brings her wise-child persona to a somewhat more mature character with ironic expertise. The same can be said of Church, who knows how to do slackers, without seeming to be one as an actor. Paradoxically, he's an energetic slob. Parker probably has the toughest assignment here, as a smart woman making a dumb choice. But she has charm and perkiness and if she doesn't entirely persuade us to suspend disbelief, she at least gets us to elide...
...July 2007 article in the New Yorker, writer Ian Parker reported a bonobo pack aggressively pursuing a baby duiker--a kind of small antelope. Coxe admits that her Kokolopori researchers reported troubling behavior in one bonobo group after a female gave birth to a stillborn baby. "The other adults let her keep the dead baby for a day," she says. "Then they ate it." These reports have given rise to a prickly cultural debate, with the unknowing bonobos being recruited into America's political wars. bonobos' genteel qualities may be overstated, said a headline in the Wall Street Journal after...
...glamour (general irresponsibility, “Entourage”). It is of note, then, that neither “Californication” nor “Weeds” is written in one of these veins—and that each is still finding success. 2006 found Mary-Louise Parker awarded with a Golden Globe for her funny, tender portrayal of a widowed mother driven to a life of Ziploc bags and gram scales in order to maintain her upper-middle-class status on “Weeds.” Her show has fast become Showtime?...
...from earlier in the movie. 9. When things can’t get any worse for John Cusack—and then it starts raining. 10. For every horny trucker. 11. During the closing credits when you find out that the cowboy’s real name is Sunshine Parker. —Staff writer Rebecca A. Schuetz can be reached at schuetz@fas.harvard.edu...