Word: slackers
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...also work against a middle-born. Siblings who hope to stand out in a family often do so by observing what the elder child does and then doing the opposite. If the firstborn gets good grades and takes a job after school, the second-born may go the slacker route. The third-born may then de-de-identify, opting for industriousness, even if in the more unconventional ways of the last-born. A Chinese study in the 1990s showed just this kind of zigzag pattern, with the first child generally scoring high as a "good son or daughter," the second...
This is the show from hell, and we mean it in a good way. On his 21st birthday, slacker Sam (Bret Harrison) learns that his parents sold his soul to the Devil (Ray Wise). Now Satan has come to collect, drafting him to capture fugitives from Hades--a dirty job but one that gives Sam a purpose in life for the first time. A kind of male Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Reaper is the funniest network pilot of the season and a devil of a good time...
...domestic box office. (He has made three of the five top-grossing docs of all time. It's Moore, Gore and the penguins.) So to get out the youth vote for Democratic standard bearer John Kerry, and maybe move a few units of Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore went on the Slacker Uprising Tour, visiting 62 cities, mostly college campuses, in 45 days. His rollicking new movie, shot and edited by Bernardo Loyola, is the hagiographic record of that tour...
...struck a modest note about watching the movie with them: "When you look like me it's not easy to see yourself blown up to 40 ft." He said he might not repeat the experiment next year, citing six attempted physical attacks on him during the Slacker Tour. He declared himself "not overly thrilled" about the current Democratic Presidential candidates and floated the notion of a Gore-Obama ticket. He reminded the crowd of the Democrats' knack for clutching defeat from the jaws of victory, adding, "We should be prepared to say the words 'President Giuliani...
...stars got DUIs, Wilson always appeared to have a ride home with one of his cool actor-brothers, Luke, 35, and Andrew, 43, or someone as blonde, pretty, rich and famous as he, like Kate Hudson. When he wasn't busy filming blockbuster comedies that played off his lovable slacker image or writing smart scripts like Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums with his friend from Texas, director Wes Anderson, Wilson's life as documented by the tabloids consisted of tossing a football at the beach, riding his scooter alongside his dog, Garcia, and dating whatever impossibly beautiful woman he wanted...