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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teenagers, representing the sway these movies hold on today's adolescents. Considering the band members represent a generation that wasn't even old enough to go to the cinema without their parents when these movies came out, this may seem odd--but then, perhaps because they weren't actual teens, they were able to take the often mushy emotions in both the movies and their accompanying soundtracks at face value...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IN THEIR EYES | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...week. Naturally, an army of fans stampeded into theaters on November 17 and walked out satisfied after the first two minutes a random movie. Lucas has since put the trailer on the Web to satisfy rocketing public demand. Star Wars is everywhere again--seven months before the actual movie comes...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WAITING FOR `WARS' | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...actual premise of Meet Joe Black, however, is fascinating and wonderfully profound. Pitt first appears as an agreeable, ill-fated newcomer to New York City who hits on medical resident Susan Parrish (Claire Forlani) in a coffee shop. Soon after leaving the shop, he is killed by an out-of-control car (the death is so overwhelmingly violent that you have to laugh). It turns out that Death himself has orchestrated Mr. Pitt's death so he can inhabit the young man's body. He next approaches communications tycoon William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins), Susan's father, and convinces...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Brad Pitt School of Acting | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...close-ups he gets. The camera is literally in love with his face--it captures every pore in an effort to prove just how godly he is. Instead of taking advantage of the chance to react to each statement and give us subtle clues to his character's actual thoughts, Pitt prefers being mysterious. His face remains blank for nearly three hours, occasionally flashing the famous smile. "You wanna know what I'm thinking?" he seems to be asking with his random pauses and interminable stares into the camera. The problem is, of course, that Pitt really isn't thinking...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Brad Pitt School of Acting | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

Fineberg calls the $1.3 billion dollar drop inthe endowment "a blip," and Huidekoper says evenan actual decline in endowment value would notpush the payout percent too high...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: University Loosens Purse Strings | 12/3/1998 | See Source »

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