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...figure skaters - blond, winsome Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) and bad-boy Chazz Michael Michaels (Ferrell) - get into a brawl on the winners' stand and are forever banished from the male singles category. Three and a half years later, Chazz is drunk and disgraced impersonating a wizard in some Podunk lounge act on ice, and Jimmy is peddling sports equipment at a Ski 'n Shred. But they love skating more than they hate each other, so they agree to become the world's first male-pairs team. "As if skating wasn't gay enough already," a rival snorts...
...took a break in 1947 and resumed the following year, now in May, now an annual event. (The 1968 edition was aborted midterm, in response to the Paris street revolts.) In its early days Cannes and Venice were the only major film festivals; now every town larger than Podunk has a yearly movie bash. (Note to editor: Please check to make sure Podunk doesn't have a film festival.) Berlin may be more serious, Amsterdam hipper, Sundance more focused, Toronto more congenial. But Cannes, with its 40,000 visitors from around the world, remains the gold standard for movie conclaves...
...cannot describe how sorry I feel for Brian J. Rosenberg. Poor Brian is faced every day with swarms of “‘I-love-Boston’-sweatshirt-wearing, stupidly-grinning visitors from Podunk,” he writes. He is forced to step around them while they snap pictures of John Harvard. Once in a while, he is even reduced to interacting with these people...
...graduation. If you wanted to study in a place where you wouldn’t be bothered by outsiders, where no one would ever willingly choose to visit your campus, maybe you should have gone to Yale. Oh, and Brian, the next time you’re driving through Podunk and your car breaks down, I’d recommend watching what you say about those “stupidly-grinning visitors.” Many of them own shotguns...
...started five minutes ago. I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve literally had to jump into traffic to avoid getting run over by a swarm of “I Love Boston”-sweatshirt-wearing, stupidly-grinning visitors from Podunk who take over an entire sidewalk. I’ve had it with the guy setting up a 15-foot-wide tripod in the middle of a gate to photograph the Science Center. And the Barker Center. And Memorial Hall. And Widener. When I’m asked, repeatedly...