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Among the 455 hours of film unspooled in the 10-day bash known as the Toronto International Film Festival was a new Stephen Frears picture called Dirty Pretty Things. A smart film and an even cannier title, because it defines the lure of movies: that they show people doing dirty pretty things. And the lure of Toronto is that it's a clean town with a pretty fine festival - the busiest and most influential in North America. Last year, Toronto was not so festive. The suicide bombers of Sept. 11 severed the convocation in half: five days of illuminating...
Typical Saturday night: After several hours of getting ready in front of the huge-ass cosmetic mirror, she might head out to an a cappella concert or an ice cream bash. I don’t really see her as the partying type...
...John F. Bash ’03, Reed’s friend, sent two e-mails plugging Reed’s candidacy, including one that asked recipients to join the College Dems, regardless of political affiliation...
Neil LaBute's rep, or rap sheet, is as a chronicler of cruelty. The two films he has written and directed (In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors) and his two best-known theater pieces (Bash: Latterday Plays and The Shape of Things) are cunning investigations into the way people hurt people. Now, in his version of A.S. Byatt's Booker prizewinning novel, Possession: A Romance, he has ventured into Merchant-Ivory territory: that foreign country called the English past, where passion bursts from the corset of propriety and love is the most beautiful work two poets...
Riefenstahl turns 100 this week, having survived career changes, war and its aftermath, decades of political criticism and ill health. Friends will fête her at a birthday bash in Munich. The rest of us get some party favors too, with the release of Impressions Under Water, her first film since 1954, and the publication of Africa (Taschen; 564 pages), a book of photos taken over the past four decades. Her new work looks at sea life and Sudanese tribesmen, not ruddy-cheeked Nazi youth or Olympic sprinters, but it's still of a piece with the old: stunning...