Word: protagonists
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...cold had bought Flav’s new album, “Hollywood,” but that was because Newbury Comics made purchasing the CD a prerequisite for a spot in line. Their $13 wasn’t for the music, but rather for an encounter with the protagonist of “Flavor of Love”—VH1’s hit send-up of “The Bachelor”—in which a contestant who defecated on the floor tellingly survived a round of elimination. So they waited. And waited...
...Augusten is callous bordering on monstrous, but Bening somehow makes you sympathize with this hardhearted woman. As Augusten’s first boyfriend, Joseph Fiennes (“Shakespeare in Love”) is also heartbreakingly funny as he portrays a diagnosed schizophrenic who becomes enamored with the protagonist. In short, this is a movie filled with talented actors who become all the more impressive in the hands of a director who is able to create such a fantastic and compelling narrative. Murphy should also be commended for the film’s painful and isolating atmosphere that not only...
...vein of “Urinetown” or “Avenue Q,” self-conscious about the ridiculousness of musical theater. But instead, the minds behind “High Fidelity” attempt to make Hornby’s decidedly shiftless and self-centered protagonist sing enthused anthems about slackerdom and genuine ballads about his (poor) treatment of women...
...begin with a protagonist whose girlfriend is “not at all like the other girls”—perhaps because she’s Canadian, or perhaps because she bites him and turns him into a werewolf. We end in an Edenic forest that allows the strange couple to live a blissfully nude life with fellow werewolves. In between, we’re treated to some freaky visuals, some funny ones, and not nearly enough nifty dancing from the ultracharismatic band...
Patricia Cornwell and her amazing ability to write crime novels is another case in point. Cornwell has slowly abandoned the tight, protagonist-focused style that made her prize-winning debut “Postmortem” so compelling. Instead, her last few books have adopted a multiple-viewpoint narrative method that omnisciently probes the minds of both heroes and villains...