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merrily

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1. "Point-missing contest" Love it, stealing it, will have many opportunities to use it at DU,
Sat May 31, 2014, 09:20 PM
May 2014

try to remember to give redqueen credit.

Rogen no doubt meant that his characters are lucky enough to win the affection of women whom society thinks could get a better looking man (as if looks were all that matter. Then again, it's L.A.)

That is not my take on real life, but it is the kind of movie role in which he get tends to get cast. That's what supposedly made Knocked Up so supposedly funny. She was pretty and thin and employed in TV, while he was plump, average looking and unemployed. Yet, she was knocked up and he was the baby daddy. And, by the end of the movie they were in love. Now, y'all try to control your hilarity, okay?

And that is exactly how they publicized it. As he and Heigl (sp?) made the rounds of the interview shows, every interviewer asked, "You, you? She falls for you? And poor Rogen had to chuckle as though he were a hideous and agree. Interviewer after interviewer and over, so it was the script.

I don't think he's a bad guy in real life, but, yeah, the "get the girl" phrasing echoes the cartoon caveman who clubs the gal and bring her to his cave, where they live happily ever after.

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