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...film’s protagonist is an Irish-American known only as She (Joan Allen) living in London with her husband, the weary and unfaithful politician Anthony (Sam Neill). At a party, She encounters He (Simon Abkarian), a Lebanese chef, and the two embark on an affair that forces an assessment of themselves both as lovers and in terms of their religious and political identities...
...once like you, my friends—a young, bold intellectual, full of sarcasm, prone to bitter self-doubt and frequent crises. Then I saw the video for “Evil,” and realized that the puppet protagonist embodied all these intimate emotions...
Compare the critical reception of Diary to that of Sideways and you come closer to understanding the cultural biases that influence critical opinion. A number of movie reviewers have suggested that Sideways proved so resonant with their peers because its protagonist resembles, in vocation and disposition, the professional critic: discerning and bilious in equal measure. Diary contains no such analogs, and much of its criticism is detached and dismissive in tone...
She’s smart and funny, beautiful and perceptive, sensitive yet hard-nosed. She’s my TV girlfriend, Veronica Mars, the protagonist of the show of the same name which airs on UPN Tuesdays...
...dramatic matinee that played at the Loeb Drama Center yesterday left its audience in stunned disbelief but offered few clues as to the ultimate fate of its embattled protagonist, University President Lawrence H. Summers...