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...Miranda Dear, SBS Independent's commissioning editor for drama, he landed on her desk accompanied by a handwritten note. It was March 2003, and it had taken Melbourne animator Adam Elliot three years to get the right ingredients and balance of flavors for his 22-min. short film Harvie Krumpet. "Well, here he is," the note declared, "almost fully baked...
...succumb to asthma like his screen counterpart in Brother; he acts in the prize-winning short Roy Hollsdotter Live, which is released with Harvie Krumpet in Australian theaters this week; the latter screens on sbs-tv March 8.) And as for Harvie's existential angst, it's all about Adam. "I've struggled with the meaning of life over the years," admits Elliot, who dropped out of graphic-design school to sell T shirts for five years at the St. Kilda markets. Then, like Harvie, he had a carpe diem call - and seized the day by enrolling in film...
...everywhere I turned there was a red, white and blue World Champions or Super Bowl T-shirt, a Pats sweatshirt or cap, or a mix-and-match outfit: Pats shirt, Bosox cap, or vice versa. Evidently when Tom Brady turned to the camera and announced that Adam Vinatieri?s boot had, just moments before, spurred in him an epiphany and that, hey, he was going to Disney World, all of New England had said as one: ?If Tom?s going, I am too!? Observed and overheard exiting one attraction was a big guy, serious gut situation covered by his blue...
...word of a rumor that actor Adam Sandler might make an appearance at the Harvard-Yale basketball game spread around campus, students flocked to Lavietes Pavilion in the hope of catching a glimpse of the comedy icon. He never showed, but by the end of the contest that was of only secondary importance...
...truth now." He put his finger on just the thing that is turning off American voters. You can't believe anything a politician says, especially those running for higher office. Any one of them will say whatever is necessary to get elected. Dole merely gave credence to that idea. Adam H. Dorsch Arlington Heights...