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...this third film, overseer Chris Columbus, who directed Sorcerer and the first sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, has handed the reins to Alfonso Cuaron, the Mexican director best known for the too-hot-for-an-R sex comedy Y Tu Mama Tambien. Cuaron, however, also made the English-language children's film A Little Princess, so he knows his way around precocious kid actors...
BODY FOUND. DRU SJODIN, 22, a University of North Dakota student and Victoria's Secret clerk, missing for five months; in Crookston, Minn. Dozens of volunteers searched the area last year and again this month. A sobbing Sheriff Mark LeTexier announced, "Dru is home." Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., a convicted sex offender, has been charged with the crime...
...third Harry Potter looks substantially better than its two predecessors, likely due to acting lessons for li’l Radcliffe and the capable direction of Alfonso Cuaron, who could probably turn See Spot Run into a haunting examination of the human soul with vague sexual undertones. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow has been apparently sitting on the shelf for some time which immediately sends up warning signals, but the outlandish, late ’30s detective comic visuals in the trailer suggest a full realization of the powers of CGI technology. A safer bet will be Richard...
...Opera Society presents their last two performances of Cosi Fan Tutte, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final comic opera. The story follows the travails of Ferrando and Guglielmo, two arrogant young officers who decide to test the loyalty of their beautiful fiancées after the sceptical Don Alfonso questions their sweethearts’ devotion. Hilarity ensues as the opera unravels to expose the deceitful nature of love. Tickets $9 regular, $10 at door, $7 students, $6 Dunster residents. Friday, Feb. 27 at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28 at 8:30 p.m. Dunster House Dining Hall...
...libretto deals with the misogynist philosopher Don Alfonso who incites two young officers, Ferrando and Guglielmo, to betting on the faithfulness of their lovers while they’re away. They part with their sweethearts in heartbreaking fashion, only soon to return in disguise as exotic Albanians, and even sooner to discover, to their dismay and Don Alfonso’s cynical satisfaction, how easily their lovers are lured into the traps of new temptation...