Paging Doc Jollygood

Hollywood's new prescription for males: trade success for sensitivity and learn to be warm, wonderful and wuvable

Men! Sweaty, hairy things! They think every problem can be solved with either fists or power tools, and they don't know how to shop, cook or listen. In so many modern movies, a guy is a goon with a grudge, a hyperactive child on steroids. The summer blockbusters show how he can die hard or douse a forest fire or terminate the bad guys. But he still needs educating, humanizing. Why, with a woman's touch, a man can be a mensch -- warm, winsome, wonderful, wuvable and all those other sweet w adjectives. Also, in Hollywood's late-summer films, way too wimpy.

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