Word: schlub
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...year-old needs to retire his record as America's oldest male virgin. A schlub gets drunk and impregnates a woman he just met. The two films that Judd Apatow has written and directed, not including the 493 (actually, seven) other comedies he has produced in the past two years, are relationship pictures. The dialogue may be raunchy, the subsidiary characters beyond rude, but at the movies' core, Apatow wants you to know, there's a real, beating, borderline-mushy heart. (Judd Apatow: TIME 100 Finalist...
...that laid-back, inappropriate confidence that makes Rogen so endearing. You expect someone so obviously out of place everywhere--a 13-year-old on a stand-up-comedy stage, an 18-year-old high school dropout on a sitcom-writing staff, the schlub who gets to romance Katherine Heigl--to be uncomfortable. Instead, he acts as if, while he may have wandered into the scene accidentally, he belongs there. Or maybe he is stoned...
...know what the schlub love interests are not. They are not a female fantasy. Given Uma-like superpowers or even Condi-like earthly powers, women would not, surely, choose to waste them on bringing numskulls who look like Ben Stiller up to I'm-prepared-to-be-seen-out-with-you standard. Women need their superpowers for more important stuff like fighting illiteracy and deflecting people's attention away from the fact they've gone maybe one day too long without shaving their legs...
...diaries as part of the narrative, "Gemma Bovery" often feels like a caustic and richly deserved counterpoint to the irritating Bridget Jones franchise. Imagine Bridget on amphetamines and you have a fair idea of Gemma Bovery. The characterizations of Gemma as a rudderless yuppie, Charlie as the befuddled schlub, various French and English twits and even Joubert, the largely sympathetic baker/narrator are all razor sharp satires that always have enough humanity to keep them from becoming two-dimensional...
...couple of differences: the ?Black Angel? loser is a lover of the murder victim, and the woman avenger, Catherine (blond, charisma-challenged June Vincent), is his betrayed wife. When her schlub of a two-timing spouse is sent to jail for the murder of showgirl-vocalist Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling), Catherine tracks down Mavis? ex, a part-time songwriter, full-time drunk named Martin Blair (Dan Duryea). ?I had to see you,? she implores, and he snaps, ?Why? Because I had a wife who needed killing. And you had a husband who took care...