Movie Review | 'Mr. Woodcock': Gym Class Becomes Boot Camp
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Between Billy Bob Thorntonâs wry performance and Tami Reikerâs nuanced photography, you half-expect âMr. Woodcockâ to deliver more than formulaic laughs.
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"What's funnier than real-life experience?" Alexander Payne asks. That question easily could serve as the motto for the director who set "Election" in a real high school with authentic real students and plopped an au naturel Kathy Bates into a hot tub for "About Schmidt."
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As American children grow fatter and more out of shape, physical education classes are being found wanting. Experts say there's little accountability for P.E. teachers in most schools. They say the classes are often poorly run, and students don't spend much time in them anyway.
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A college theory about gaining weight, give or take a few examples.
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The problem with most bad movies about aspiring talents is that not enough of them, as Ed McMahon used to say, &quot;reach for the stars -- and catch &#39;em.
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This morning series for preschoolers has spun off a prime-time one-hour movie, âTale of the Mighty Knights.â
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In the 1967 film classic "The Graduate," the callow Benjamin Braddock, played by Dustin Hoffman, is counseled to make his future in plastics.
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Can years of film school be replaced by a single DVD? Teachers think not.
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The latest movie from Judd Apatow is the logical conclusion, maybe the dead end, for boy-meets-boy comedies
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In the tradition of great, and not so great, boxing movies, Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" seems to have the makings of a classic.
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Debased, infantile and reckless in the extreme, this compendium of body bravado and malfunction makes for some of the most fearless, liberated and cathartic comedy in modern movies.
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Never mind kickball or soccer. Some schools are now getting kids to break a sweat with exergaming fitness centers
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John Norcott is an 18-year-old power lifter who pushes himself. He does not have a coach or a trainer. He creates his workouts and he sets his schedules by himself. It is hard to argue with the results.
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CBS's new drama starring Mr. Lowe as a a good-hearted doctor with a gambling habit, turns out to be kind of fun Â kino cards and colonoscopies do mix.
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It may be a bit, um, premature to say so, but Judd Apatowâs âKnocked Upâ strikes me as an instant classic, a comedy that captures the sexual confusion and moral ambivalence of our moment.
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Researchers report that in the typical high school gym class &#151; where there are a few jumping jacks before a halfhearted game of softball &#151; students are active for an average of just 16 minutes.
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Money, drink, sex, success -- Joe  "Basic Instinct" Eszterhas has had and seen it all.