Cera quickly became the go-to guy for directors in need of an awkward American teenager who looked like he had spent his high-school years giving his lunch money to bullies and struggling to connect with girls.
After a decade as the go-to guy for directors in need of a sweetly inept alter ego – Roger Dodger, The Squid and the Whale, Adventureland – he's suddenly, at 27, playing a rather more formidable real-life character: Mark Zuckerberg, in David Fincher's The Social Network, a fictionalised take on Facebook's birth and subsequent internal fallout.
The pair who won are Ron Shelton and Jerry Stahl, one a talented writer-director in need of a crust, the other an ex-junkie TV writer with a one-note career, mostly about being an ex-junkie TV writer.
Poor Kevin McKenzie, Ballet Theater's current artistic director, is obviously prompted here to say something no artistic director would say unless urged by a television director in need of a title: "They're not just any four guys, they're wild," he declares.
For example, he said, advertising agencies that are producing commercials and directors who are in need of special effects come to Blue Sky with completed designs and stories.
If there are any directors or producers in need of his services, Mr. Love would like them to know that he owns his own car and is reachable by pager 24 hours a day: (917) 39173745.
Bonnie Stone, the executive director of Women in Need, a shelter for women and children, praised the city for its ability to house an ever-increasing number of people who needed help.
If it's to ensure that someone shows up, these alternatives absolutely work," Jennifer Podkul, policy director at Kids in Need of Defense, said at the hearing.
"This is becoming less like an immigration issue and much more like a refugee issue," says Wendy Young, executive director of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), a DC-based nonprofit that helps unaccompanied immigrant kids find pro bono legal services.
Mothers convicted of illegal entry can be sentenced to up to six months in jail and be dealt up to $10,000 in fines, while the youths are shipped off to Office of Refugee Resettlement shelters around the country—and ORR and the US Marshals Service, which prosecutes the mothers, do not communicate, Jennifer Podkul, policy director for Kids in Need of Defense, told me.
Meagan McKenna, the communications director for Kids in Need of Defense, an organization that represents unaccompanied minors facing deportation, echoed Aguilar's thoughts, though she emphasized that problems in Central America have done more to cause the crisis than the actions of smugglers.
