Zack and Miri makers Kevin Smith and Seth Rogen riffing on a MySpace video about the “fat guys don’t get hot girls in real life” concept — a rebuttal of sorts to my views along these lines. They don’t mention HE by name, but I’m pretty sure they’re talking about my reviews of Knocked Up and Zack and Miri. “Who writes that?” Rogen indignantly asks. “Skinny guys who can’t get laid…that’s who.”
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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