Tenacious D

The short answer is 'Yes', but with conditions.

Men and women cannot be friends from the very beginning because the reason why a man, in particular, will be interested in a woman is not platonic. It is most likely to be sexual. At the start, two strangers of the opposite sex are always drawn together through basic physical attraction, nothing else. There is always the hope, by at least one party, that the friendship will lead to something more intimate, and possibly permanent. Friendship under that guise cannot ever be platonic. There will always be tension as one person tries to keep the other person as a 'friend' and the other tries to move that friendship along to something else.

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Just saw Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny on Saturday night. Here is a quick review:

The movie is about the "formation" of the band Tenacious D. Jack Black ran away from his home and joined another outcast, Kyle Gass. Together, they struggle through the hardship of being rockers. That is, until they learn about the Pick of Destiny, a pick that is said to make anyone using it into a top-rate rocker.

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