It was not the
good-hearted gay man or the tough-love waitress who began the change in him.
At its core, the show is still celebrating the good fortunes of a
good-hearted 11-year-old who wins the adoption lottery and inspires FDR's New Deal to boot.
Such a scattershot approach isn't always satisfying, but that's OK because Apatow and Carell know one essential truth that puts them ahead of the game - namely, that watching a
good-hearted virgin is infinitely more enjoyable than spending time with a European gigolo.
Howl himself (voiced by Christian Bale) is a seemingly
good-hearted if terribly vain wizard (he broods over changes in his hair color) whose ambulatory home boasts a door that opens into any number of exits, including both sides of an ominously brewing war.
Squarely in Miles' corner, on the other hand, is his
good-hearted daughter Tick (Danielle Panabaker), so it's almost a fair fight.
They're led by the untrustworthy but
good-hearted Fender, manically voiced (does he know any other way?
Moving into a new suburban home with his grieving,
good-hearted dad (James Nesbitt) and his clear-headed, 9-year-old brother, Anthony (Lewis McGibbon), Damian's life continues apace until one day a gym bag of money drops out of the sky as if it's a gift from heaven.
At midnight tonight at Cozy's, the Sherman Oaks club that lives up to its name, Adams will lead the crowd in another round of the year-end perennial, but not before folks have soaked up a magnum or two of
good-hearted Southern soul.
Along the way, he meets up with a
good-hearted and ``bootylicious'' schoolteacher named Jessica (Michelle Ann Johnson), who calls him ``Cree-ass.
Plus, with plucky citizens like the bustling title character and her
good-hearted husband Stan, how could the sun not soon shine on this sceptered isle?
Matthew Rocheleau is credible as the suburbanite dragooned into spending his first volunteer day pulling an all-nighter, and Shannon Mills does a nice
good-hearted bad girl as the damaged Misty.
She'd certainly like to be as sweet,
good-hearted and trusting as the Piggly Wiggly checkout clerk from Fraziers Bottom, W.
