Word: rogen
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hollywood wrong in putting its money on Katherine Heigl to be the next Julia Roberts? Heigl, a large, pretty actress of farm-girl robustness and pale orange skin and hair tones, had emerged from the cast of Grey's Anatomy to serve as Seth Rogen's femme foil in the surprise hit Knocked Up, then scored on her own as the perpetual bridesmaid in 27 Dresses. More than Reese Witherspoon and Kate Hudson, her prime rivals among early-30s contenders for the Roberts ring, Heigl radiated a pensive solidity that, if properly exploited, could have spurred the return...
...obligatory Matthew McConaughey scene - as crucial to his fans as a Miley Cyrus song or a Seth Rogen penis joke is to theirs - is the ritual removing of his shirt, to reveal a torso that could have been sculpted, or certainly caressed, by Michelangelo. The gesture is not so much an act of narcissism as a votive offering to his core constituency. A showman as much as an actor, McConaughey is ready to give the people what they want; and abs make their hearts grow fonder. (TIME Ponders: The Making of Matthew...
...Seth Rogen Cinematic Formula is usually pretty reliable—he gets into ridiculous situations through some indirect fault of his own, he gets high, he finds love by being himself, and in the end, his good-natured smirk ensures that everything works out and he can go on being a slob or slacker or some variation of the lazy man’s dream. It’s easy and effective, the movies are funny (in a witty way that is both naïve and worldly at the same time), and the formula has worked for him thus...
...security detail; John and Matt Yuan as twin mall-cop layabouts; Ray Liotta as a police detective who sneers away Ronnie's ambition to join the force; and especially Celia Weston as Ronnie's mother, who loves her son and her booze with equal, pathetic intensity. Weston and Rogen's scenes together have the sad, sloppy sweetness of two losers who care for each other because they're stuck together. After all, for most of the movie, each of them has no one else...
...Rogen, in military short hair and a bulky frame that he's since slimmed down, adroitly navigates the course Hill has set for him: a high-strung bully until he's bullied (by the Liotta character) and becomes a figure of sympathy, someone we root for. About a half-hour into the movie, as you're settling in to the impression that Ronnie is rotten, Hill pulls out the disease card. Not to sound like Michael Savage, but these days every bad attitude is rationalized by being given its own disease. Ronnie, you see, is not a violent jerk...