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...Jones. No problem... until, as he approaches his wedding day, he realizes with a spiraling horror that he has no male friends. (Apparently he went to an all-girls' college, if there are any left.) He's not a man's man, a guy's guy, he's a woman's man, and the suggestion is clear that that's some sort of disease, serious but, in this movie, curable. Like the 40-year-old virgin searching desperately for a woman to relieve his burden, Peter must find a friend - audition strangers, go out on man-dates. His younger brother...
...attitude towards provincial living weren’t so condescending throughout the film. At one show in Ohio, he refers to the husband and wife who run the theatre as “these two hayseeds,” and is furious at the amateur introduction the woman gives to his act. The film’s high points are the moments in which Troy, rather than Buck, is the focus of the action. A young man’s struggle to reconcile his desire to follow his passion and his need for a paying job is both captivating...
...man’s destructive narcissism. This alone would be an intriguing subject, but the true focus of the novel centers around the emotional vagaries of Wright’s women.As Virgil wrote, “varium et mutabile semper femina,” or, “Woman is ever fickle and changing.” Boyle appears to be unable to shake his fascination with Maude Miriam Noel Wright, Wright’s third great love and second wife. Maude aggrandizes herself as the erstwhile “Belle of Memphis,” and by the time...
...study, published in the Mar. 20 issue of the journal Science, found that the women made significantly more accurate predictions of their own level of enjoyment when provided with the experience of another woman in their social group...
...enjoys exploring the feminine perspective. “I like women’s film,” she said. “It’s a different point of view.” Her characters’ cultural confusion stems from her own experiences as a Jewish woman in predominantly Catholic Latin America. Experiences at university during the tumultuous 60s grounded her interest in the female situation. “I’m a feminist, but not in the way that I belong to a group,” Schyfter says. “I never belonged...