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...young actors. The younger guys are like "Oh all I gotta do is like get fat and go to Fiji." I mean that's just not true. What's true is just look at the young Marlon Brando and how he worked and what he did. He busted his ass--and Robert Duvall, for example, is still like that. That's why I think Duvall is such an amazing actor. He's in his 50s and he's still doing it. I hope that the ethic hasn't been lost, because that's what defined actors and made acting great...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Matt Damon On Life, Acting and Harvard | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

Which is all well and good, but Craven doesn't seem satisfied with such commentary and fright-nighting; in Scream 2, he insists on going that one step more meta on our ass. Reenactments of reenactments of movies of movies. References to conversations about classes about sequels to movies existing in both our world and this alternative world that has the fictional slasher flick, Stab...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Scream 2' Goes One Step More Meta, But We're Reaching Saturation | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

SALMAN ("DON'T GIVE OUT MY ROOM NUMBER") RUSHDIE AGE: 50 OCCUPATION: Long-winded novelist BEST PUNCH: In the Guardian, Rushdie, still upset that Le Carre wondered if stores shouldn't carry his book for fear of bombings, called him "an illiterate pompous ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 8, 1997 | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...RAZA, it was a real kick in the ass to people who had just been sitting around," Martinez said. "I think, though, that it provided a lot of momentum for RAZA in terms of involving members...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grapes Bring Activism Back | 12/4/1997 | See Source »

...part of their weekend to help the taxpayers. And though it felt earnest and went over well with the people who came to be served, there may be nothing sadder than watching one of the world's last great bureaucracies give up its well-earned reputation as a hard-ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WE WORK FOR YOU! | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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