Word: wanly
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Malcolm skews a bit older, with more roughhouse and cynicism, but Muniz's feature films are traditional anxiety fantasies for kids: Big Fat Liar put some brisk wit into its boy-who-cried-wolf plot; Cody Banks is a wan recycling of Spy Kids with a 007 fixation. The Bynes and Duff movie vehicles are more nakedly retro. What a Girl Wants is based on the '50s Sandra Dee bauble The Reluctant Debutante, while The Lizzie McGuire Movie could be Gidget Goes to Rome with an updated pop score. Both put their budding stars in glamorous foreign capitals (London...
...chronicle of T. E. Lawrence, a British officer who in WWI created a guerilla force out of Arabs waging their own private wars, Lawrence of Arabia has an immortal cast: Peter O’Toole (this year’s Oscar winner for lifetime achievement), Alec Guinness (a.k.a. Obi-Wan Kenobi), Claude Rains (Casablanca’s prefect of police) and Anthony Quinn (who was Zorba the Greek). Friday, April 11 through Sunday, April 13 at 3:30 and 8:00 p.m. Tickets $8.50, $7.50 matinees. $5.50 seniors and children. Brattle Theater, 40 Brattle...
...This is intriguing—I may have a new pastime, Hobey Wan Kenobi. Watching Harvard’s games should at least offer me more entertainment than playing another season of Madden 2003. I’m already in season 2014! Joey Harrington has won MVP the last 11 seasons. There is only so many times I can run “parallel slants” in the five-WR format for a touchdown before I start to lose interest...
...Across town, while Dan-ni-er sleeps the pregame afternoon away, the indoor and outdoor courts of the Lu Wan District Children's Athletic School echo with the clamor of wannabe Yao Mings. Teenage boys leap and shout and launch fadeaway threes, and a dozen girls who can't be older than seven dribble two balls at a time?perhaps the Olympians of 2020 and beyond. OUR DREAM IS TO BECOME A SHANGHAI SHARK, reads a banner strung on the fence, but it is out of date; the success of the Young Giant has trumped domestic glory. Now, says...
...have sprinted back to their fur-trimmed overcoats. (This arena isn't heated, either.) A giant replica of Yao Ming's No. 15 jersey has been hoisted to the rafters; the starting lineups have been introduced to a working-class crowd of fewer than 2,000 at the Lu Wan Sports Arena. In an egregious performance the home team proceeds to lose to the Guangdong Southern Tigers 130-101. It is the defending champions' third defeat in a row, dropping them to an embarrassing 4-5, and Dan-ni-er is partly to blame. By the middle of the first...