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Josh Peck has a motto: “Drop the robe, and hope that when it falls the world doesn’t fall with it.” Admittedly, it’s not that catchy, but it was an immeasurable help to the...
Nineties New York bursts into life in The Wackness, says Sukhdev Sandhu Oh the heady year of 1994! I spent it cooped up in a campus-town bedsit subsisting on Pot Noodle, listening to lovelorn indie music, and reading and re-reading Isaiah Berlin's...
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Blame it on the music — good music. Beats, rhymes and life are the theme of “The Wackness,” an entertaining tale of how a depressed teenage drug dealer and his psychiatrist deal with life’s growing pains. The film, the latest effort from...
THERE is something reliably uncompromising about Ben Kingsley's acting, which is in itself neither good nor bad, but does he still need to chase away the ghost of his noble suffering in Gandhi? In the past 20 years he's always been striking in...
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- When it came time to complete the transition from kid star to grown-up actor, Hilary Duff put a scorpion down her pants and grabbed a microphone to sing the double-entendre-laden I Want To Blow You Up in the recent film...
They grow up so fast, these Nickelodeon and Disney kid actors. It seems like only yesterday that Josh Peck was best known as the good stepbrother, the one with straight A's, on Nickelodeon's "Drake & Josh." The next thing you know, Peck is 21...
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