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    Whatever Works; The Proposal

    Boris Yellnikoff is the prolix geezer played by Larry David in Woody Allen's Whatever Works. He was once a world-class physicist teaching string theory at Columbia, but the only string he strums now is misanthropy... At one point in The Proposal Sandra Bullock shakes the handlebars of her runaway bicycle and says frantically, "Why are you not stopping? Stop! Stop!" At more than one point in this wheeze of a romantic comedy I wanted to shake her and say...

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    By Joe Morgenstern • Jun 20, 2009 • 3m Listen

    Boris Yellnikoff is the prolix geezer played by Larry David in Woody Allen's

    Whatever Works. He was once a world-class physicist teaching string theory at Columbia, but the only string he strums now is misanthropy...

    At one point in The Proposal Sandra Bullock shakes the handlebars of her runaway bicycle and says frantically, "Why are you not stopping? Stop! Stop!" At more than one point in this wheeze of a romantic comedy I wanted to shake her and say...

    Banner image: Jessica Miglio/Sony Pictures Classics

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