JOSH PECK had been missing his crew. On television, the actor, 21, usually rolls with Drake Bell, his co-star on the popular Nickelodeon series “Drake & Josh.” (Mr. Peck’s MySpace page asserts that they are friends in real life.) In his new movie, “The Wackness,” Mr. Peck plays a loner who deals pot to his therapist, Ben Kingsley.
-That was the lead, which was about his roles in his TV series and his new movie. The article does not focus on his career, although it is mentioned later.
But in his life off screen, Mr. Peck, a native New Yorker, hangs with the same boys he did in high school. On a recent trip from Los Angeles, where he now lives, Mr. Peck picked up Henry Glovinsky, 21, and Cameron Bowen, 19.
-This first sentence in the above paragraph tells what the story is about in one sentence. That was the nut graph.
“If it weren’t for the sex,” Mr. Peck said, “they could be my life partners.”
O.K., he was probably exaggerating a bit about the bromance. The guys know one another from the Professional Performing Arts School.
“It’s like the ghetto version of LaGuardia High School,” Mr. Peck said, referring to the institution immortalized by “Fame.”
“We had gangs,” Mr. Bowen added. “But it was more like the Sharks and the Jets. We used jazz hands.”
They wasted no time hitting their old haunts, like Washington Square Park, where they got taken in chess, and the New Yeah Shanghai Deluxe restaurant in Chinatown, where another friend, who speaks Cantonese, had introduced them to the soup dumplings. Mr. Peck sent him a text message to be on call to help with the menu, but they managed to order five sets of soup dumplings on their own.
“Awesome, we circumvented Jeremy,” Mr. Peck said. “He’s going to be so proud of us.”
In charisma, energy and speech, Mr. Peck seems like a quintessential overgrown New York City kid. He was raised by a single mother — his moms, as he inevitably refers to her — in Hell’s Kitchen, “right next to Mr. Biggs with the chicken wings and the dope karaoke,” he said. By middle school, he was doing stand-up at clubs, but couldn’t parlay his husky charm into television ads. “They didn’t want chubby little kids to do commercials for Oreos,” he said. His role on “Drake & Josh,” about stepbrothers, came at 15; now it’s mostly his voice that’s husky. In “The Wackness” (opening July 3), which is set in New York in 1994 and which received an audience award this year at Sundance, he has his first semi-nude scene.
- That paragraph was about the guy's background.
But back to the bros.
“You were huge into Pokémon,” Mr. Peck said to Mr. Bowen. “One of my first memories of meeting Cameron was when he showed me his extensive Pokémon collection.”
“I was like a smoker, buying two packs a day,” Mr. Bowen said. They argued about their geek cred.
“It must be a generational divide,” Mr. Peck told Mr. Bowen, “that you like ‘Lord of the Rings’ and we like ‘Star Wars.’ ”
After dinner, they walked to Soho Billiards for a few games.
“This is going to be nail-biting,” Mr. Glovinsky said.
“As long as one of us beats Cameron,” Mr. Peck replied.
Mr. Glovinsky: “God forbid, a ‘Lord of the Rings’ fan.”
Mr. Peck: “Come on, let’s do this for Mordor.”
Mr. Glovinsky beat them both. “How do we make it cool that I just lost?” Mr. Peck said.
-That was all the main body.
-Abrupt ending, there is no conclusion. I didn't expect the story to end just like that.
I had a hard time finding the scope of the issue, and it didn't say the cause either. The impact are on him and his two friends, but it doesn't elaborate on how they are affected. There are no action of the contrary forces and it doesn't say anything about the future.
This is a narrative piece, it tells about Josh Peck and his relationship with his friends. I think the eassy is too short, the dialogue doesn't really add information, although it does add colour to the article.
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