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Harvard alums often go on to do great things. Take Natalie Portman '03, for example. After proving herself over the years as both a talented and diverse dramatic actress, Portman (according to Variety magazine) has just signed on to produce and star in the film adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's wildly popular cult favorite Pride and Prejudice and Zombies...
Ardent fans of the novel claim that a lesser known actress should have been cast as the heroine, but many think that Portman will shine in a role that demands grace, wit, and sass. Horror story fanboys, eat your hearts out—before the zombies get there first. Then again, maybe Portman will come to your rescue...
Hanger’s path has wound in many directions since her days growing up in Asheville. While Hanger’s interests have shifted over the years—in high school she thought she wanted to be an actress, and pursued the idea of being premed at Harvard—last year, Hanger switched her concentration from Human Evolutionary Biology to History and Science and set the goal of going to business school...
...actress named Deepika Chikhalia won a parliamentary seat, five years after winning fame for her portrayal of the goddess Sita, India's most revered symbol of womanhood, in a wildly popular television serial based on the Hindu epic the Ramayana. Hoping to copy her success, other political parties soon put up their own TV-serial candidates. Sita exerts tremendous power over Indian popular culture: she is the bane of feminists, the impossible ideal held up by disapproving in-laws and yet, for many women, an object of devotion. What political party wouldn't like some of that heady aura...
...many junior female politicians on the national stage has inevitably generated controversy. Besides Fukuda and Okamoto, members of a freshman class of 26 female DPJ lawmakers include Kayoko Isogai, a temp worker who was unemployed when she stood for election, and Mieko Tanaka, a former secretary and actress who had a small role in an erotic horror film, Blind Beast vs. Killer Dwarf. The group has been criticized for being little more than pretty faces unqualified to hold public office. During campaigning, some newspapers dubbed them "Ozawa's princesses" because most were recruited to run for parliament by Ichiro Ozawa...