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...Bush—I’m not even sure where he stands politically.” Talking about his latest feature, Weitz waxes philosophical and sees a lot of himself in various characters. “With Omar there is the naïve, show-tunes loving kid,” he says of the character who comes across as genuinely enamored with this fantasy of America. He continues that “with Hugh’s character there’s the cynical, world-weary guy who just thinks everything sucks.” Ultimately Weitz...
...column to take considering the topic), but rather one where he passionately and convincingly sings that he believes he can fly, he believes he can touch the sky. I believe you, R. Kelly. I believe you can fly. And if he can fly, there is no way that a kid from Harvard Yard cannot win the ultimate fight: to be the next universally recognized sex-symbol...
...before,” and that his latest project focuses on self-discovery and rechanneling negative energy. “I was definitely intrigued by the power of music at a young age,” he said. “For example, when listening to U2 as a kid, I noticed that some of those songs addressed apartheid in South Africa or the IRA.” Sen said the family has a long history of striving for social justice. “Kabir has inherited it,” he added. Kabir’s grandfather...
...wish-fulfillment and a funny premise, however, to win so much attention. Like “Mean Girls,” “Opal Mehta” is chick lit mixed with satire. Rather than Queen Bees/Wannabes, however, Opal Mehta represents what might be called the Pre-Organization Kid, the protozoan phase of the sociological type first dutifully reduced to caricature by David Brooks in 2001. “The Organization Kid,” he wrote, is fatally “goal-oriented...
Like David Brooks’ Organization Kid, Opal Mehta is a professional student. Over the course of the book, she also becomes a professional partier; “fun” is just one more category to check off her resume. To learn to dance, Opal watches a music video by Beyonce with a pen and paper in hand: “Swivel hips left, then forward,” she writes for the purposes of later memorization. To learn to have fun, she studies teen movies...