Geek chic
It’s the revenge of the nerds: now they're hot hunks!
By JACOB E. OSTERHOUT
Good news, losers: It's cool to be uncool. With the upcoming releases of two new movies, "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "The Baxter," and the recent success of "Napoleon Dynamite," Hollywood has gleefully embraced dorkdom.
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"Women find sex appeal in male geek movie characters," notes Gitesh Pandya, editor of
www.boxofficeguru.com. "Geeks have charm in their awkwardness. The personality of a geek makes him sexy, partially because he can be pitied and partially because they are good-natured people."
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