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Lars and the Real Girl, which begins as a standard indie study of the sympathetic oddball, soon reveals itself as a gentle comedy of community. Prodded by the town doctor (Patricia Clarkson), Gus and his pregnant wife Karin (Emily Mortimer) figure out that for Lars, Bianca is not a sex object but a love object--an outlet for the tenderness he has never been able to express and that his indulgent friends are thrilled to see bloom. Most movies celebrate the journey to another place. Lars pursues the counterargument--that most of us are defined by our past...
...become characters," says Gosling. "They're all me." His latest screen self is a Midwestern recluse named Lars who orders a sex doll on the Internet and suffers from a delusion that the doll is his real girlfriend. On the advice of a therapist (Patricia Clarkson), Lars' friends and family play along and treat Bianca like any other pretty new girl in town. To become Lars, "I had to get rid of all the posturing and ideas of what I think makes me cool or charming and turn up the more vulnerable parts of myself," Gosling says. In another actor...
...manner of grieving. Splashing memorial ceremonies throughout the media only dredges up the sorrow, which we hardly need at this time in our country's sorry state. If we could bring such passion to the truly important issues, we could forge a better future. Let's move on. Patricia Green, Columbia, Missouri...
...Patricia M. Nolan ’80, a longtime critic of the district’s finances, countered Grassi by citing data from the Mass. Department of Education that show that only 29 percent of the district’s dollars are spent in the classroom. She added that Grassi’s figure was inflated by money spent on school-based administrators like deans...
...departure of Patricia O’Brien, former deputy dean of the College, from University Hall in 2006 remains a mystery, particularly when she was so popular among students. Supposedly she left to take an indefinite “personal leave of absence”; however, many speculate that she was forced out in what Eliot House Co-Master Lino Pertile said was an “absolutely sudden” departure. And even when Gross had the opportunity to give O’Brien credit for all she has done for the College—like taking a crucial...