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...film does not hold up to scrutiny, but it is not meant to. It is simply the next and most successful step in director Andy Tennant’s (Sweet Home Alabama, Ever After) path to becoming the next Gerry Marshall (Pretty Woman, The Princess Diaries) and Will Smith??s quest to becoming the most non-threatening and charismatic African-American in popular culture since Fat Albert...
...effect, it is a reiteration of ancient stereotypes of the African-American male’s overpowering sexual potency. Although this image is briefly challenged by an end-of-second-act fight, the racial stereotypes continue to pervade the conduct. Will Smith??s love interest is Eva Mendes, a Cuban-American and the movie’s only other ethnically-distinguished person; clearly the casting director could not conceive of a black man ending up with a white woman...
...Republic critique of Zadie Smith??s second novel, The Autograph Man, Wood scathingly noted that the novel felt like “a newspaper designed by a kindergartner.” A year later, in the fall of 2003, he took a lecturing job in the same department where Smith was employed. “We were both quite nervous about meeting each other,” Wood explains, adding that he usually avoids meeting the authors he disparages. But the two “got on very well” and were quick to find that they...
Gone is Hana Peljto ’04, the face of coach Kathy Delaney-Smith??s championship squads of the early decade. In her lofty place is Cserny, the captain who, at this point, has cut an impressive figure in nearly every conference-wide offensive and defensive statistical measure—including points (first), rebounds (second), blocks (fourth) and even three-point percentage (third...
...battle between Harvard’s best ever basketball stars has yet to begin. The battle for Delaney-Smith??s favor is in full swing...