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...film had bombed, it would have presented a broad target. Failure is a luxury not yet afforded to women." But Susan succeeded, and its momentum helped reduce the risk factor for hiring first-time women directors. Randa Haines, 41, won an Emmy for the TV movie Something About Amelia, but was untested in feature films until she was tapped to direct Children of a Lesser God, starring William Hurt. "It's a business of the strong male directorial voice," Haines says, "and it takes people a long time to rethink that image. At first I wondered, Who's that high...
They are not many, those persistently insoluble puzzles--the fates of Judge Crater and Amelia Earhart, Thomas Pynchon's unlisted phone number--but they add a dash of darkness to a world that generally appears to us in flat primary colors. Of them all, the identity of Deep Throat had been, for the past 33 years, the most tantalizing of those questions--in part because he placed himself at risk to bring down a corrupt government, in part because of the romantically noirish way he was portrayed in All the President's Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's book...
After 107 years and countless performances, Harvard dancers have taken their final bows in the Amelia Tataronis Rieman Center for Performing Arts...
...Utah, one catalyst for the rebellion was the shaming of Amelia Earhart Elementary School in Provo. Last year the school failed to meet No Child benchmarks because of low scores by just three students with disabilities. Principal Rosemarie Smith remembers the day she got the news. "When principals get the results, they automatically look at the upper-righthand corner to see whether their school made adequate yearly progress. I looked at that space and about died." There were no significant financial consequences, but the failure cut deeply. "We're in an upper-middle-class area. We have 95% attendance...
...Barnes’ shoulders comes now with slightly dimmed rainbow-watercolor sheen and a koan-like paradox. With the collective’s founders dispersed to side projects and Powerpuff soundtracks—or, in Jeff Mangum’s case, last sighted piloting a transatlantic aeroplane somewhere near Amelia Earhart’s—does Elephant 6 still matter...