Word: stewart
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...This plot device has tested the credulity of some early viewers of Spider-Man 3, as I gleaned from snippets of Jon Stewart's chat with Maguire on Tuesday's Daily Show. "Here's what I buy," Stewart said teasingly. "A supergenetic spider bites you on the hand and you yourself take on some of the characteristics of a spider. [But now] apparently something falls from outer space and it turns into a black suit. And that for me is where the Spider-Man series, y' know, loses its believability...
...enough that he save people; he must be seen saving them. "They love me!" he cries with a dawning pleasure. Celebrity is this superhero's cocaine. The headlines are the high - that, and the attentions of ultra-blond trophy girl Gwen (Bryce Dallas Howard). The "something from outer space" Stewart referred to is really just an expression of the inner conflict between the old and new Peter. "Who are you?" Mary Jane demands, and Peter honestly replies, "I don't know...
...been a racist jerk? Although there is a line between satire and insult, it seems to me the line is very clear. I think hip-hop music is offensive, so I don't listen to it. I thought Imus was offensive, so I didn't listen to him. Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Sacha Baron Cohen and Sarah Silverman are funny because they point out painful truths in our culture. Meredith Hodgkinson, Austin, Texas...
...paragraphs in the speech that mentioned the war. In what might be the single most depressing understatement of the year, McCain noted it "has not gone well." But anyone expecting a shift in policy was disappointed. Rather, he reiterated the points that he had previewed to Jon Stewart the night before - that we made mistakes getting into the war, that we shouldn't make the same mistakes again and well, there was a certain lacuna in his remarks. He did not ask for more time for the surge to "work;" he didn't rail against timetables. In fact...
...Land of Women” is largely derivative of every other mother-daughter relationship film you’ve seen. Despite the trailer’s implication that the movie revolves around a romantic tryst between Ryan’s on-screen daughter Lucy (Kristen Stewart, “Panic Room”) and Brody’s heartbroken Carter, “Women” is primarily concerned with the dynamic between Lucy, her mother Sarah (Ryan), and the personal issues they each tackle.Sarah, a lonely suburban housewife, suffers from breast cancer and struggles to make a substantive connection...