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...doctor. Also the kind of guy whose luggage the airline is bound to lose. And the sort you know is going to end up on Jack's roof, chasing a cat, holding a live wire in one hand, putting out a leaf fire with one foot while trying to pretend the overflow in the septic tank down below is not his fault. De Niro is getting awfully good at comic menace (see Analyze This), and Stiller, a handsome guy who never alludes to his good looks, is a deliciously preoccupied innocent...
...Martin: No, I don?t think so. But there has to be some qualification. And it all depends on what you pretend to be. If you?re a Hollywood producer who likes to fuck girls, and everybody knows it, they say, "Oh, it?s just old Joe." But if you PRETEND to be sensitive and kind, then you have a problem ? an internal problem...
...have never liked my body," she acknowledges openly. "I think it's something that is so common, and I am not going to pretend that this is some humanitarian effort for young girls. It was for me, and for me to start looking at the female body, and looking at it as something that is beautiful even though it's not perfect...
...celebrated by statesmen and poets alike, differs markedly from a subject like World War II, with its clear consensus about good and evil. Ambrose's latest saga is not a historical blame game played by today's rules. Still, the author has more respect for the past than to pretend that the transcontinental railroad could have been built without financial corruption, treacherous working conditions, the blood and sweat of scoundrels and bigots, and the killing of Indians who fought the iron horsemen because their rails altered bison-migration patterns...
...right, of course. The whole point of being out of things is not to justify it, not to pretend any grand intentions. Holden never felt the need to explain himself, nor did Huck. (Both, I believe, could have grown up to be capable journalists.) To be out of things has to mean everything, including the implication that one is a superior person for being there. Yet, I tell you, I do feel better this...