Word: sethe
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...past seven years, women’s lightweight head coach Cecile Tucker has molded the lightweight crew program into the championship contender it is today. Upon the birth of her second child, however, Tucker will hand the reins over to coaches Will Stevens, who will direct the varisty, and Seth Davis, who will head the novice and walk-on programs. This represents a major transition for the entire team, especially the upperclassmen who have worked under Tucker.“It’s definitely going to be a big change,” says sophomore Lizzy Mazjoub, a member...
...they started the script when they were 13. The film has obvious autobiographical elements, beyond the writers' naming the main characters after themselves and setting it in their senior year in high school, when Goldberg got into Dartmouth and Rogen didn't. That's what happens to Evan and Seth in the movie...
...Nothing Krafft-Ebing about separation anxiety, or, in Seth's case, Ivy envy. It's refreshing for a high school movie to acknowledge that kids can agonize as much about grades and college as they do about sex. But Seth is also jealous that Evan might be sleeping with - all right, sharing a dorm room with - their nerdiest classmate, Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), who also was accepted at Dartmouth. And Seth needs to have sex with a cool girl named Jules (note: guy's name) that night, that very night, not to commune with her, or even to get orgasmic...
...more and. Seth confesses that when he was eight he obsessively created drawings of penises. The movie ends with dozens of ornate examples of his draftsmanship...
...Somewhere buried in Superbad is the poignant coming-of-age fable - the glimmer of a suggestion that Seth's dependence on Evan is adolescent, even infantile, and that at some point he has to grow up and accept that friends can be a continent apart and still be close. Or not close: friendships, like erections, can subside. But to find that valuable truth, you have to dig through an avalanche of d--- jokes and strenuous slapstick...