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...humor in the play was so accessible, it was hard to condemn. In one scene, an actress, turned with her back to the audience, stood behind a placard reading “has a nice ass” and shook, well...

Author: By Daniel B. Howell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: 'Umbrellas' Covers Surrealism With Comic Veneer | 3/18/2007 | See Source »

...clear-eyed honesty and, again, simplicity. A veteran from popular Bosnian director Emir Kusturica’s films and a national star in the country, Karanovic plays Esma without pretension, as a woman straining to forget the past and bravely face the present. Luna Mijovic, a debuting actress, plays Sara with surprising freshness and frankness. The relationship between Esma and Sara is captured with success: Sara’s possessiveness and blooming teenage dark spells and her mother’s struggle at authority and obedience are themes that are not altogether easy to portray, but come across lucidly...

Author: By Anna I. Polonyi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grbavica: Land of My Dreams | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...This year’s incarnation of the swimsuit issue, which was first published in 1964, features singer and actress Beyoncé Knowles on the cover, kneeling provocatively on a sand beach in a red-and-yellow two-piece bikini...

Author: By David Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sports Illustrated Stripped From Rack | 3/13/2007 | See Source »

...pull off. Pregnancy—and therefore, Peter Saarsgard—have inexplicably inspired this former granola hipster to hire a competent stylist.CATE BLANCHETTPretty much every time I’ve seen a Cate Blanchett movie, I’ve fallen asleep, so my opinion of her as an actress is rather uninformed. I do however, love everything she wears to awards shows, which is clearly the more important thing. Her gray Armani Prive gown was both figure-flattering and beautiful. It looked incredibly heavy because of its ornate beading, so she must also be very strong, which you have...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Revisiting Oscars Fashion, Whether I Like It Or Not | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...Efficient, capable and well paid, Haruko (played by the 33-year-old actress Ryoko Shinohara) is a contract worker who has been dispatched to a struggling Tokyo food-manufacturing company. Efficient and deadly capable, she is totally lacking in interpersonal skills - which in Japan, even more than in other countries, are at least as important as actually being able to do the job. The comedy in Haken - which at times resembles a Japanese version of The Office, minus the meanness - comes from Haruko's clashes with her often incompetent full-time colleagues (one of whom is ironically played by Koutaro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Indignity of the Temp | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

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