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...director of memorably powerful and violent movies (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator), Ridley Scott is making his first attempt at comic romance. His new film, A Good Year, stars Russell Crowe and is adapted from A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle, who has a home near Scott's in France (see review, p. 145). Scott, 68, talked with Belinda Luscombe about the French, Francis Ford Coppola's wine and how we'd all really like Kingdom of Heaven if we just saw more...
...hockey. When most first grade girls were lacing up figure skates, Sifers just couldn’t make it work.“My feet were too wide to fit,” she laughs.Luckily for the Crimson, she found something more comfortable.Following in her brothers’ blade marks, Sifers headed for the hockey rink at six years old. Since then, she’s taken home three ECAC titles and made three appearances at the NCAAs with the Crimson, impressing coaches and teammates alike with her athletic prowess and go-getter attitude.“If there...
...this enviable task. His down-to-earth nature and witty sense of humor entertain his teammates and coaches, alleviating some of the stress that builds up after long hours on the water or in the erg room.During one fall practice, lightweight varsity coach Charley Butt chided Benkreira about his blade work in the water. Butt implied that the pushing and pressure of the blade in the water should be familiar to Benkreira, since he experienced a lot of pushing and shoving in high school.Benkreira immediately turned to Butt and retorted, “Charley, kids at my school had guns...
...Vote for Pedro” t-shirt. That said, “Scoundrels” doesn’t do Heder justice for the charisma and actual screen presence he actually possesses. His character is so poorly written and socially ignorant you almost want Thornton to sling blade him out of existence. Supporting roles from Sarah Silverman (“Jesus is Magic”), David Cross (“Arrested Development”) and Ben Stiller make a last-ditch attempt to garner some laughter but just can’t carry this uncreative vehicle. Fortunately for Silverman though...
...scientists, taking advantage of its ignorance, will spiral out of control, that technology will subsume humanity. Such fears have been poignantly crystallized in movies such as “Gattaca,” where the quest for genetic perfection leads to a new, scientific apartheid, or “Blade Runner,” in which cloning has blurred the line between human and non-human beyond recognition. The way that society has chosen to deal with that fear is to hold scientists at arms length, to label them “the other,” to borrow...