Just say no to "Macho"
source: http://www.esquire.com/the-side/hollywood/new-hot-young-movie-stars-072209
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What's with all these hip, young dudes stealing the starlets and the box office this summer? They're our new leading men of the Irony Age, that's what, argues Esquire.com's new pop-culture columnist, so get used to them selling more tickets than Brad Pitt.
You need look no further than last weekend's biggest box-office success story to discover that Americans are falling for a dynamic new class of leading man: The star's insecure hero dueled a fearsome, unknowable nemesis with the help of loyal sidekicks, struggled through the treachery of romantic love and found his way, with all due Hollywood heroism, by the time the credits rolled.
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Perhaps it's time for a new male zeitgeist?
You need look no further than last weekend's biggest box-office success story to discover that Americans are falling for a dynamic new class of leading man: The star's insecure hero dueled a fearsome, unknowable nemesis with the help of loyal sidekicks, struggled through the treachery of romantic love and found his way, with all due Hollywood heroism, by the time the credits rolled.
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Perhaps it's time for a new male zeitgeist?
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