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...dirt track under the midday sun, Irrfan Khan waits at the starting line. The 42-year-old actor is playing a poor army recruit from a village in central India who runs just to get the extra ration of food allotted to athletes. At his first race, his character doesn't know what to do when the pistol sounds, so he prays. "You idiot! Run!" the starter screams. That spurs the soldier into action, and the naive confusion on his face turns into determination. Extras from the Bengal Sappers - actual young army recruits who live on the base in Roorkee...
Past visiting artists in the Learning From Performers program include Baroque violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock and Grammy Award winner and actor Blair Underwood...
Indeed, in the shared language of the media, battered women double as entertainment. More often than not, the female is figured as a perpetual victim: as the passive, the “done to,” and the “acted upon” rather than the actor. Women cannot represent but are, instead, represented, their subjectivity eroded to the point of death. Seducing the audience with the macabre-made-sexy, such images remain complicit with the stereotypic representations they relate, reinforcing, rather than disrupting, cultural myths of the feminine as immanence and contingency. Replayed again and again...
...original version of the Feb. 8 news article "Hasty Pudding Roasts Timberlake" incorrectly described the clothing worn by the actor playing Britney Spears...
...addition, the article stated that the actor sang "One, two, three, lose the bypasses I need." In fact, the lyrics were "One, two three, those are the bypasses I need...