Word: breakthroughs
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...middle of writing up proposals for various grants when he reached a breakthrough with the Gilbert and Sullivan Players. “G&S actually approached the HRDC about funding a pre-season show in the Ex themselves,” says Hodgson. “It happened about halfway through the grant application process for us, and we simply found out that they had offered to co-produce the preseason show and provide funds...
...process, Kate is also doing a good deed for Alicia Silverstone, the actress who plays her. Clueless, a 1995 teen comedy (in which she played, yes, a romantic-softy matchmaker), and her breakthrough jailbait performances in The Crush and a trio of Aerosmith videos made her a teenage "It" girl. But a few failed movies and a teensy weight gain later, she was on track to becoming a remembrance in a VH1 It Came from the '90s special. By design or by necessity, "I got off the fast track," the actress, 26, says...
When their leader dies, a Maori community in New Zealand must come to terms with their new leader, a female and the twin of the deceased. Directed with evocative, poignant subtlety by Niki Caro, this film has received accolades for its beautiful cinematography and the breakthrough performance of its young protagonist, played by the precocious newcomer Keisha Castle-Hughes. The MFA, 11 a.m., $8 students...
...next year or two. The effort recalls the last time we launched a concerted attempt to resist a mortal threat: World War II's Manhattan Project, which produced the Bomb. This time the enemy is murkier and the battle more diffuse. "There isn't going to be one big breakthrough, one killer app," warns Katrina Heron, former editor of Wired, who along with David Kuhn is co-editing a book for HarperCollins on science and technology in the age of terrorism. "There isn't going to be a Los Alamos...
...together was to get married." It took her nearly three years to finish her first drama, a sci-fi adventure, which was bought for less than $500 and turned into a made-for-TV movie that attracted little notice. Her next try, Just the Way You Are, was her breakthrough, capturing 32% of all viewing households. She has since penned Long Vacation, a touchstone for anyone studying Japanese, and Beautiful Life, Japan's most watched TV drama of all time. (It was proving so popular in Malaysia that two of the country's terrestrial stations aired...