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That makes 10) Errors of Fact . But more to the point, is there anybody who thinks that Steve Brill, back before he was a press scold, would have passed up the chance to hear those tapes?
She never lectures us; she is never a scold or an "uplifter"; she never exalts some mythical Humanity over the day-to-day struggles of ordinary human beings, who are all, of course, making the same mistakes over and over again.
News Quiz participants found common ground in their loathing for professional scold William Bennett--his perpetual disapproval, his sanctimonious speechifying, his humorless yelping, the way the sunlight turns his hair into an auburn cascade, the kooky little songs he sings in the shower, his tousled amorous look first thing in the morning, the way his knowing hands, so strong yet so gentle ...
After an hour, I thought that Never Been Kissed might be the most fun teenpic since Clueless , but ultimately the movie takes too many shortcuts even on its own dumb, formulaic terms, and it can't make up its mind whether it wants to pander to teen-age fantasies of good looks and popularity or to scold teen-agers for being so shallow.
It is jacketed with the sober brown paper that covered The Book of Virtues , and it seems a calculating attempt by Bennett to secure his franchise as America's scold in chief.