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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wolfe is currently researching college life for his latest book, scheduled for publication in 2002. Using the "American university" as his subject, Wolfe hopes to capture an interesting subset of the country's culture...

Author: By Alexis B. Offen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tom Wolfe Comments On College Social Life | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Wolfe's field work for the book has included interviewing Stanford students and attending a fraternity party at the University of Michigan...

Author: By Alexis B. Offen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tom Wolfe Comments On College Social Life | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Peppering the rest of the cast is: Michael Gough (the butler in all of the Batmans), Ian McDiarmid, (the Emperor in Return of the Jedi,) and Christopher Lee, a London-born actor who, having been in over 250 films and TV shows, holds the title in the Guinness Book of World Records as being the international star with the most screen credits. Such a high-caliber cast demonstrates the power of Tim Burton as a director to attract such talent even for bit parts, and the skill with which he is able to transform even well-known actors into barely...

Author: By Sarah L. Gore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sleepy Hollow, Creepy Hollow | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...indignation over Bush or Bradley, Buchanan has left a trail of incendiary and occasionally offensive comments from his previous two presidential runs and "off season" political columns. They range from his proposal to build a triple wall along the Mexican border patrolled by the National Guard to his new book questioning American involvement in WWII. He has pledged that, under a Buchanan regime, the "Chinese won't sell another pair of chopsticks in any mall in America...

Author: By Charles C. Desimone, | Title: Substance Behind the Antics | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...Batman promised to be a departure from the cardboard comic characterizations and situations found in the Superman films of the early '80s. First, Burton chose Beetlejuice star Keaton, known more as a comic actor than an action star, to play the title character--a move that sent comic book fans into an uproar. Burton also removed the Robin character, choosing instead to focus on the intense psychological make-up of Batman and his foe, the Joker (Jack Nicholson in one of his best roles). Once again, Burton's strong adherence to his own vision paid off, as Batman...

Author: By Jason F. Clarke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Weird, Weird World: A Burton Backtrack | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

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