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Like the Cajun numskull in 1998's The Waterboy, Sandler's character in Punch-Drunk Love, Barry Egan, is prone to violence but hates himself for it. Like the rich slacker who returns to elementary school as an adult in 1995's Billy Madison, Egan is ultimately redeemed by the unwarranted love of a woman (Emily Watson). Some will say Sandler has developed an edge--indeed, the R-rated Punch-Drunk Love is much darker than, say, The Wedding Singer--but Sandler has always had a dark side. It has been relegated to his successful, warning-labeled comedy albums...
...minor miracle--and a tribute to Beck's business savvy. When he arrived on the scene with 1993's Loser, a lo-fi novelty hit from which most critics thought he would never recover, Beck was inundated with record offers trying to capitalize on his status as the Slacker Guy. "I could have gone with it," he says. "That could have been my shtick. But I wanted to be something a little more...
...true is that teen-slacker image? Only 47.6% of 16- to 19-year-olds were working or looking for work last month, the lowest June rate in 20 years. Does it matter? We asked two career experts, KATHERINE COHEN, founder of IvyWise, which counsels college applicants, and MARLYN MCGRATH LEWIS, director of admissions at Harvard College, for the most impressive ways to spend summer if you're college bound. --By Sora Song...
...would be too bad if the ambiguity and sadness of "Summer Blonde" scared you off. Adrian Tomine won't entertain you with a lot of snappy tricks. He's on to something that other comix artists haven't captured - a slacker generation growing older but not wiser...
Zevin's theme is the agony of becoming an adult, a condition finally afflicting the generation formerly known as X. In each of the book's 24 short chapters, Zevin, who is 37, confesses to having done something no self-respecting slacker would be caught dead doing: "I played golf," "I joined a health club," "I take pride in my lawn." To his disgust, he is turning into one of those people "with mortgages, health insurance [and] special sheds to store their garbage cans." There are some easy targets here--Zevin goes after such battered bull's-eyes as psychotherapy...