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...most fathers would resist telling a child - maybe even a fully grown one. And the actors have trouble with it. Reynolds can't help looking rather shifty as he relates his story and Breslin, who was so wonderful in Little Miss Sunshine, is obliged to play a standard-issue wise child, the kind of kid moviemakers think charming and audiences often feel like placing under a gag order. It's possible, I think, that Brooks - who wrote Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason- may have wanted to do something in a slightly more serious vein. He seems to want...
...movie that attempts a sophisticated take on romance has turned out to be strained and witless. All the successful recent comedies (The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Wedding Crashers, Knocked Up, to name three) have tended toward the raunchy end of the spectrum. It's as if Hollywood's wise guys have recognized that middle-class American life is just too complicated, perhaps even too inherently miserable, to get an intelligent handle on. You can't quite treat it as a tragedy, but you can turn to its first cousin - farce - and have some profitable fun with...
Recalling one of his objections from a May 2006 meeting, when he also joined Burgard in denouncing the proposed modifications, Mansfield added that he thought the evaluations “subjected the wise to the judgment and scrutiny of the unwise...
...think it would be a sad day when I or anyone else considers me wise, because I as a professor am here to learn...and so I don’t see such a dramatic difference between me and the students who are learning,” Ryan said, adding that she had changed courses in the past in response to suggestions offered in the evaluations...
...about your role and the role of conservative talk radio in general? I don't think they understand why I do it, No. 1. I treat it as a business. My definitions for success have nothing to do with who wins elections, but rather, Is the program growing audience-wise? Are we attracting new sponsors? Are those sponsors paying confiscatory rates? Are we able to charge confiscatory rates? Which we are. Are they getting results for their advertising? Yes they are. We're sold out constantly, we've got a waiting list for people to get on. That...