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Michael Showalter (Elliot), Peter Dinklage (Benson) and Elizabeth Banks
(Caroline) in a scene from "The Baxter"
went against what we think of as our
typical American masculine hero," he
said.
Showalter identified more with Allen
than the John Wayne type as he went
off to New York University, where he
and Wain helped found a comedy
troupe. The group eventually morphed
into MTV's sketch comedy show The
State and Comedy Central's 2005 series
Stella.
In the Meatballs-esque teen comedy
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Coop — a counselor smitten by an
indifferent brunette.
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from a different perspective while
watching Nora Ephron's Sleepless in
Seattle some years ago.
"I started to wonder, What would
happen if instead of watching Meg
Ryan and Tom Hanks fall in love, we
stayed with Bill Pullman's character, the
man Meg Ryan leaves behind?"' he
said. "I wanted to know, `How did
everything work out for him? Did he
get love, too?'''
The result was The Baxter, a name
Showalter chose because it sounds stiff
and formal, yet regal." He added that
Sherman is a more WASPy kind of
Baxter, stuck in traditional social norms
and how he's supposed to act. Whereas
a Jewish Baxter, said Showalter, would
be "more openly self-deprecating, self-
aware and intellectually superior, which
in a way makes him more heroic."
Neither type of Baxter is unworthy of
affection, however. The Hollywood
Reporter may have dubbed his movie
an aggressive loser comedy," but
Showalter emphatically disagrees.
"Elliot is not a loser," he said, as he
accidentally banged the table so hard
that water spilled. "He's just not your
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