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 Spotlight:
Mike White
Fans who recall Chuck & Buck—and the eerie sight
of writer-actor Mike White as Buck, staring forlornly through a
bedroom window while his buddy has sex—may be shocked to find
that White’s written the Jack Black classroom comedy School
of Rock. But, says White (pictured, with Sarah Silverman),
“there’s a parallel between Buck and Jack’s character.
They both have a complete resistance to a certain stage of development.”
These twitchy Peter Pans never grow up—in School of Rock,
the rising indie star and Tenacious D front man plays a megalomaniacal
rock wannabe—and they admit that childhood often hurts. “I
wanted to stay away from that Mrs. Doubtfire crap, because
the movies I loved weren’t delicate when it came to how adults
deal with kids,” says White. “If Bad News Bears
was made today, it wouldn’t be PG—it’d be a hard-R.”
Especially if, like School of Rock, it was directed by Richard
Linklater.
See Peter
Rainer's Review.
Opens October 3
• Showtimes
& tickets (movietickets.com)
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