The crying game  Stephen Whitty | ArtiSyndicate By Stephen
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November 13, 2007 at 8:27 AM, updated November 14, 2007 at 10:24
AM Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson: On the "List" We men are
supposed to be stalwart, stoic types -- heroes who, like, Mark
Wahlberg in "Shooter," tend to our own wounds with a turkey-
basting kit. We don't flinch, we don't hesitate, and we
certainly never cry.  Except at the movies.  I was thinking
about that recently when I saw that Jeff Wells' Hollywood-
Elsewhere site had linked to a a Desson Howe story about
tearjerkers. Howe -- rather drily -- interviewed various experts
on the emotional reasons behind cinematic meltdowns. Wells' and
his readers had more interesting, personal things to add.  But
what really brought the subject home was seeing an early sneak
of "The Bucket List."  I won't get into a review of the Rob
Reiner film -- which comes out in December, and stars Jack
Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as terminal cancer p