Word: backgrounders
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...experience and attention, she says, have been positive. "It's a great thing to happen," she says. "It's very euphoric." People who didn't know about her dance background have been very surprised. For now, she doesn't plan to take a modeling career any further, but is enjoying the spotlight while it lasts. She says that one of the nicest pieces of feedback she received was from a friend who said "the magazine made a good choice in picking me because I represented the best of a progressive global Indian woman...
...Elsewhere co-star pooh-poohed the job when it was offered--"I couldn't see myself reading trivia questions off a card"--but one backed-up money truck later, he calls it "the most creative thing I've ever done." Executive producer Scott St. John says Mandel had the background to straddle the show's light and dark moments, as agonized contestants, egged on by briefcase-bearing babes, risk certain cash for a shot at $1 million. "We wanted someone who could handle the drama and allow those moments to play out," St. John says...
Last night's documentary interspersed historical background with testimony from locals—many of whom were in attendance last night—about 15 cent ice cream sundaes and cow heads floating in the Charles River...
...done it 11 times!!' She's very playful about being Meryl Streep." Streep is the most nominated actor in the history of the Academy, but has won only twice. Which makes it more notable that during shooting she essentially worked as an extra for three days, sitting in the background as the action focused on the assistants outside her office. She was probably on her BlackBerry, e-mailing one of her four children. "Gwyneth Paltrow put me on to it," she says. "It's the best parenting tool, because you can use it during a scene and no one will...
...more likely than girls to have behavioral problems.The much higher rate of disciplinary and behavior problems for males and the far lower amount of time they spend on homework can explain almost the entire female advantage in college attendance for the high school class of 1992, adjusting for family background, test scores, and high-school achievement, according to Goldin and Katz’s research.One year after University President Lawrence H. Summers pledged to spend $50 million on an effort that is—in part—focused on improving the position of female students and scholars at Harvard...