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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...keeping with Kon's taste for offbeat topics, Tokyo Godfathers follows a makeshift family of homeless people?transvestite ex-drag queen Hana, scruffy middle-aged bum Gin and runaway teenager Miyuki?who discover an abandoned baby in a garbage heap and embark on a search for its parents. It's a briskly paced comedy with a gentle core and a prickly surface. ("You can't get milk from an old queer's tits," yells Gin, mocking Hana's burgeoning maternal instincts.) Set during Christmas in a gorgeously detailed, snow-softened Tokyo, it's also one of the most affectionate, meticulous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Grit | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

Yale coach Jack Siedlecki, bemoaning his team’s inability to pressure Fitzpatrick. With a bum knee and ankle, his scrambling abilities were severely limited, but the Bulldogs still managed only three sacks thanks in large part to solid blocking throughout by the offensive line...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SOUNDING BOARD | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...implications of this would be staggering. Neither team has finished ahead of Harvard since 1996. For some perspective, President Clinton was still serving his first term in the White House that year, Kerri Strug made her famous vault on a bum ankle in Atlanta and Ted Kaczynski ’62 was arrested...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Saving Face: With Win Over Yale, Football Can Clinch Share of Second | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

...date with that week's Lonely Heart and watch the date from a secret room, all the better to tell the lady where she goes wrong. The idea is to bring a woman's gay best friend to the small screen. "Because we tell them when their bum looks big in those jeans or if they're dating a loser. And they listen and trust us because we have no ulterior motives," says Richard Hastings, the show's creator. "Gay men can just tell a woman the truth, like, 'You're being a real bitch.' If a straight man said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absolutely Pink | 11/2/2003 | See Source »

...based on months of interviews with Namu. And Mathieu's presence helps keep some of Namu's outrageousness in check. Mathieu says, for example, that Namu first described her father as riding into her village on a white stallion and wooing her mother with the line "Hey baby, nice bum." It was a good story?but total fiction. And Namu has shocked audiences at book readings in the U.S. by stating that she would never take a Mosuo man because she can't stand "their stink." Such comments are familiar to many Chinese and to me?I've known Namu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaving the Motherland | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

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