Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Awkwardness is fine in a romantic lead. In fact, it can be almost adorable if you look like Billy Crystal.
On the other hand, if one is as genetically blessed as Ashton Kutcher, the viewer expects a certain romantic suaveness, a Cary Grant-esque inclination to charm. Instead, he demonstrates a horrific capacity to remind you of when your brother was twelve and had no spatial reasoning ability.
Because, despite his traipsing about with Demi Moore to Kabbalah Temples, and pulling horrible, ill-conceived tricks on celebrities, Ashton Kutcher is a nerdy romantic. He hulks awkwardly. His facial expressions are spastic and he looks positively lumpish on screen. Amanda Peet looks embarrassed most of the time she is...
After Vienna, Kennedy did win a little help from the Soviets in dampening the fight in Laos, but there were no agreements on nuclear-weapons testing or on Berlin. The summit, it soon developed, was a prelude to crisis. Khrushchev sized up the young President and decided Kennedy could be...
Accept the date. I must admit, I can empathize with your hesitancy, as your personal “taste buds” don’t relish the idea of the intimacy reaching beyond the ends of your coffee table. But, despite that, I still think you should take the...