By early 2004, with the dire situation in Iraq and the American election looming, it was reported that the Daily Show with Jon Stewart had become the most important source of news – or fake news – for America’s college-aged youth. Apparently it’s the show’s practice to have Mr. Stewart come out and answer questions from the live studio audience before the actual taping begins. And occasionally Mr. Stewart is so amused by one of the questions that he repeats it later, on the air.

And so it was that in April 2004, Mr. Stewart began his show by repeating this burning question from one of his eager young fans in the studio audience. “Do chicks really like assholes?” Mr. Stewart seemed bemused by the question or even disappointed. Perhaps he expected a question about Bob Woodward’s new book about the war in Iraq, which had just come out that week. But instead someone wanted to know about getting laid.

Lovable is a new film by Alan Zweig about love and all the things that get in the way of finding it.

Call me crabby, but I, Curmudgeon - made with little more than a consumer-model camcorder and a desktop mirror by narcissistic misanthrope Alan Zweig (Vinyl) - seemed thrilling precisely for spitting in the face of all that's hot. - The Village Voice