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White the only good part of the movie 'The Proposal'  Romantic
comedy is a rehash of old jokes and the predictable can't-stand-
each-other-but-fall-in-love progression.  By Peter RainerFilm
critic of The Christian Science Monitor / June 19, 2009  Ryan
Reynolds, left, and Sandra Bullock, are shown in a scene from,
'The Proposal.'  Kerry Hayes/Touchstone Pictures/AP   Every once
in a while – too often these days – a movie from a major studio
comes out that makes you wish there was a federally funded
quality control review board in Hollywood. The monumentally
unfunny "Land of the Lost" was bad enough. Now there's the
monumentally unromantic "The Proposal," a dud of a different
sort. Instead of being about dinosaurs and time warps, it's
about gags that were old when dinosaurs ruled the earth.  Skip
to next paragraph  Sandra Bullock plays Margaret Tate, a
martinet New York book editor whose underlings quake in fear of
her. (I'm beginning to regret "Th