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...Resident Alec Wysoker ’84, a member of the committee, said over the weekend that he felt the process of implementing the deal was hampered by a “complete lack of trust on both sides...

Author: By Jessica R. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Riverside Building Plan Moves Forward | 4/27/2004 | See Source »

...damaged characters that has won her a reputation as one of her generation's most promising performers. Let Reese Witherspoon do the cutesy-blonde thing and Anna Paquin play the angst-y ingenue. Stiles excels at playing the man-eater, like the calculating teenager who sets out to seduce Alec Baldwin's movie star in 2000's State And Main, another Mamet script. It looks a natural, but Stiles says it's anything but. "You have to really work to find the humanity of characters in films," she says, "because they're removed from the audience." Her breakout performance came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Julia's West End Workout | 4/25/2004 | See Source »

...Coen brothers’ limp remake of a classic Alec Guinness comedy has its occasional laughs, but ends up becoming boring in its pursuit of essentially sweet comedy. Tom Hanks is the leader of a gang of robbers forced to masquerade as a band in order to rent church-lady Irma P. Hall’s basement because it connects to the basement of their target. Although the Coens’ affection for southern tradition is sweet and the manic third act brings things up a notch, it isn’t enough to save this essentially mediocre film...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HEADLINE | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

THURSDAY: Oliver Twist. (1984) Alec Guinness and John Howard Davies in David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic make the recent "Oliver!" stick in your gulliver by comparison. With Anthony Newley as the Artful Dodger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

THURSDAY: Oliver Twist. (1984) Alec Guinness and John Howard Davies in David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic make the recent "Oliver!" stick in your gulliver by comparison. With Anthony Newley as the Artful Dodger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

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