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...Dismissed by critics and largely ignored at the box office (its $44 million haul didn't even crack the year's 15 top-grossing titles), Scarface arrived on the scene as a decidedly minor event. But Tucker recounts how the movie gradually "got away from its [middle-aged, white] creators" and became a hit among "largely young, black and Hispanic" fans. The book examines how De Palma's work redefined the way films addressed on-screen violence and drug use and how the intensity of its misogyny, money worship and drug euphoria was embraced by hip-hop and gangsta...
...Twilight is just one of a wave of movies challenging the conventional wisdom that the taste of young men is what drives the box office. This year female fans helped make monster hits of High School Musical 3 ($84 million), Mamma Mia! ($144 million) and Sex and the City ($152 million). "[Female-centric films] used to be counterprogramming to something extremely male in the marketplace," says Chuck Viane, Disney's president of distribution. "Now they've become the gorilla in the marketplace." (Read Richard Corliss's review of Twilight...
...penalties in the third period, and Brown was able to tie it up.... Maybe if we didn’t take those penalties, we might’ve been able to play with the lead and hold on.” After the Crimson was sent to the box 5:38 into the third frame, Brown managed to convert on the power play, slamming the puck through traffic and past the right post to tie the game at three. Harvard was hit with two more penalties before the period was over, including a 5-on-3 at the halfway point...
...Mickey had theme park, a newspaper comic strip, and The Mickey Mouse Club, the hit television variety show that has launched the careers of teen stars from Annette Funicello to Justin Timberlake. But soon Disney feature films like Bambi and Sleeping Beauty began to rake in the accolades - and box office receipts - the mouse faded into the background. Between his last 1953 cartoon short, The Simple Things, and the 1983 Christmas special Mickey's Christmas Carol, the mouse that built the house of Disney would remain out of work for 30 years...
...explosive first period, Harvard never looked back, scoring once in each of the remaining periods to secure the win. In stark contrast to last weekend’s losses to Rensselaer and Union in which the Crimson was plagued by penalties, Harvard managed to stay out of the box and score with even pressure on Friday night. “I was very pleased with the effort,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91. “We definitely played more disciplined, stayed out of the box, and it was a team game, as opposed...