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...That a 5ft. 9in. white kid would be seen as a hoops savior is just one cue that the HSM movies dwell in a Disney fantasyland. Another is the obsessively color-coordinated outfits the kids wear to school, and touches of extravagant decor, like Troy's tree house, as big as an Astaire-Rogers Deco suite, redecorated in retro-rustic. (The roof opens too, apparently at voice command.) The biggest leap of make-believe is that the high school experience is wunnnnnderful - though this view is no less reductive than the one, in so many comedies and horror movies, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High School Musical 3: The Critic vs. The Kids | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...That a 5ft. 9in. white kid would be seen as a hoops savior is just one cue that the HSM movies dwell in a Disney fantasyland. Another is the obsessively color-coordinated outfits the kids wear to school, and touches of extravagant decor, like Troy's tree house, as big as an Astaire-Rogers Deco suite, redecorated in retro-rustic. (The roof opens too, apparently at voice command.) The biggest leap of make-believe is that the high school experience is wunnnnnderful - though this view is no less reductive than the one, in so many comedies and horror movies, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High School Musical 3: The Critic's Review | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...West Coast, where the glamorati have to put on their Gaultier gowns and Armani tuxes right after lunch - it seemed as if Oscar might be following the Super Bowl, the Grammys and the Democratic presidential primaries in providing a slate of improbable winners. Cotillard, who poured her 5ft. 6in. frame into the shivering, shimmering 4ft. 8in. personality of chanteuse Edith Piaf, was only the second Best Actress winner from a foreign-language film. (Sophia Loren won in 1962 for Two Women.) Swinton, a Brit much admired for her fearless choice of indie roles, was an even longer shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Evening for 80-Year-Old Oscar | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...they'll tower over the Jaspers Maurice "Mo" Williams who stands just 5ft 11in but is rumored to have the ability to dunk...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: You Are Cordially Invited... | 12/15/1984 | See Source »

...refusal to accept federal financial support. But Harvard Basketball Coach Frank McLaughlin happens to be a long-time family friend and convinced the dubious Bremenite to submit an application here. "I knew nothing about Harvard except that it was THE great school," says Elliott, who at a stocky 5ft. 10-in. showed no promise as a basketball player...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Small Town Boy in the Big City | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

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