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"Let's have a bachelor party with chicks and guns and fire trucks and hookers and drugs and booze!" Twenty-five years ago this summer, Rick Gassko (Tom Hanks) lived every adolescent boy's fantasy in Bachelor Party. So when we saw the previews for The Hangover, we assumed the traditional story of boys behaving badly was making the rounds yet again.

, provides a vehicle for Gervais to take the audience on a ride from general distaste for his character to an understanding (if not liking) of the man.

A friend of mine had a rather interesting encounter on a train last week.

We've told you some ways to make the season brighter for local kids. Now here's an opportunity to help out an entire family in one go: Greater Philadelphia Cares is sponsoring Adopt-A-Family. They will match you with a local family in need and provide a wish list. You'll go out and gather some goodies, and drop it all off at a local agency, which will then get it all to the family in question. Easy-- and it addresses that need some of us have to shop (ahem).

“Shit, I could write that,” said a woman at the Bridge on Monday, when told that Juno was about a teenage pregnancy. Thing is, dear reader, so could you. Not because you found yourself trying to buy a ticket for three to your junior prom, mind; but neither Juno nor this summer’s Knocked Up stray too far from the basic emotional territory set out in Nine Months, Father of the Bride Part II, and the other less-than-memorable pregnancy comedies of yesteryear. Juno starts out with a spiky, wiseass attitude—the eponymous heroine (Ellen Page) begins a call to the local pregnancy clinic with, “Hey, I’m looking for a hasty abortion”—before inevitably deciding to remind the audience of the miracle of life, which I am given to understand is pretty miraculous.

I will admit that I am a faster walker than most. This fact can probably be attributed to two reasons: 1) the faithful consumption of four cans of Dr. Pepper per day and 2) a clear aversion to doing anything on my lunch break other than surfing the Internet and staining my khakis horrifically from my work desk. So maybe I am more inclined to see some Philadelphians’ funeral dirge-ian way of moving through the...

A week ago tonight, OFFICE, quite simply, rocked my face off.

When we get press releases about bands we've never heard of, we'll occasionally contact our friends in their cities of origin to see if the bands are worth catching when they come through Philly. Chicago-based band OFFICE is one such band. We talked to a friend of ours who used to write for Chicagoist, and he told us that we had to, had to, had to, catch OFFICE, because they were bound to go places, and we needed to check them out before they got too big.

For our parents, it was the assassination of JFK. Ask any of them and they can remember exactly what they were doing at the time they found out JFK had been killed. I never understood that until September 11, 2001. Our generation can remember it like it was yesterday. For us, that moment, frozen in time, is and will always be 9/11.

(Part Two) (Elevator Repair Service) (Future performances)

As you may or may not have heard by now, there's going to be a huge gathering of the minds right here in Philadelphia next week. "What minds?" you might ask. Well, minds just like yours, which is to say: blogger minds.

opposite Mandy Moore and Robin Williams.

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets.

Having grown up Catholic, this Phillyist's early experience with bingo (besides the dog song, of course) consisted of the school gym being converted every other Wednesday afternoon into a downmarket The Price Is Right (if The Price Is Right had legions of older folk sitting at long folding tables littered with markers, enough bingo cards to paper said tables, and ashtrays. And if Bob Barker was a priest). It was not really appealing so much as darkly fascinating, but still none of us sat around dreaming of the day when we'd have markers of our own.

Films: Monkey Warfare, Red Road, The Boss of It All, 12:08 East of Bucharest

Let’s make one thing clear: you do not go to see the latest Will Ferrell comedy because you are expecting a revolution in moviemaking, an epic work of American cinema, or a quirky art house film. You go see the latest Will Ferrell comedy because you want to laugh. You want to spend ninety minutes forgetting your film snob pretensions and laughing at men getting kicked in the crotch. And if you understand that, friends,...

On the one hand, we can really appreciate that the Office of Homeland Security is doing their best to keep suspected terrorists as far away from us as possible.

I would like to begin this review by strongly urging all those who believe in abstinence-only sex ed classes to see . There has never been a better defense of Joycelyn Elders' opinions on sex education—even though it was written over a hundred years before President Clinton appointed her to the office of the Surgeon General.

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What's new and/or interesting on TV this week.

When we saw this sign on our way to work this morning, we had a "The Office" moment and thought, "That's what he said."

Dear Shoe Makers:

We here at Phillyist know that a good portion of our readers may not reside within the limits of the City of Brotherly Love, and instead retreat to the pleasant confines of suburbia after a hard day's work. Rest assured, suburbanites! You are not alone, and Phillyist cares about your entertainment needs, too.

Usually, Phillyist doesn't go in for cutsey Japanese pop culture, but this song came on one of our Pandora stations while we were at the office yesterday, and we were instantly obsessed. Even though this isn't the band's actual music video, but rather a fan vid, Editor Jim tells us that the band Puffy Amiyumi appears in animated form on the cartoon , and that there's usually a short live-action section with them too at the end of the show, but swears that he doesn't watch the show. Yeah right, editor Jim. Yeah right.

Apparently, last week's episode of had plenty of Philly in it. We were trying to find that, but came up with this instead. We're not entirely sure why, but we were entertained enough to post it.

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