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...NonFiction, the less mechanical and derivative section of Storytelling, Solondz digs into the familiar territory of surburban misery and dysfunction. The story centers on Toby Oxman, (Paul Giamatti), a dejected shoe salesman who plans to make a documentary film about the underbelly of suburban high school, and the Livingstons, a middle-class Jewish-American family. Oxman finds his ideal protagonist in Scooby Livingston, an apathetic, strung-out, futureless student who spends most of his time organzing his CD collection and dreaming of being Conan O’Brien’s sidekick. Oxman follows Scooby through his nonexistent college search...
...Oxman said that American private investment in Eastern European markets had been modest, and that both sides benefit from increased American contributions...
With the recent democratization of many European nations, Oxman said, there remain "legitimate concerns about security, as old nationalistic tensions frozen for nearly five decades are released...
...much for our self-interest," Oxman said. "We must also help Eastern Europe because it is right...
...Oxman did not discount the need for direct aid from the United States government to Eastern European nations, citing the success of the Marshall Plan earlier this century...