Mitt Romney just wants to be president, and the aspect of his character that commands the most respect for me is the one that conveys how little that desire has to do with gratifying his own ego.

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But the movie's title is "Greenberg, " not "Marr, " and Mr. Stiller commands a kind of awe in his refusal to clothe the naked hostility of a character who suffers from the autoimmune disease of self-loathing. ("Life is wasted on people, " the hero says at one point.) An ardent arsonist, he has burned most of the bridges that once connected him to friends and a flourishing career.

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