October
10 Attack of the Manic Pixie Dream Girls!

Are you a young woman with no personal history, needs or thoughts, lacking an inner life? Do you exist to bring out the best in men? Would you, like Natalie Portman in "Garden State," be prone to asking your beloved if he'd like to see you tapdance in front of the fireplace? If so, you may join the ranks of Manic Pixie Dream Girls, a cinematic archetype first identified by the Onion A.V. Club's Nathan Rabin and now profiled by Neda Ulaby. Others of their ilk include cinematic heroines like Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," Katharine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby" and Kirstin Dunst in almost anything. (Click here for video.) [NPR]