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...head up the stairs, and Paul unlocks the battered turquoise door. The room is tired, cold and empty. No music, no prostitutes. No drugs, no egg rolls to go. Not even a cigarette butt. Just a junky room with some papier-mâché dragons. The desolate service bar looks like a seventh grade woodshop project. The stools are stacked upside down...
...attention backfires. My fellow students would nudge each other, laughing and pointing at me as I pass by. I would become an urban legend prefrosh hosts would tell their young'uns about. People would become terrified to smoke with me. But worst of all, I would become the butt of bad kiosk puns: "The kiosks aren't the only things that are smokin'! Come see the Din and Tonics, Friday night...
...Founded by members of the class of '02, this rag bears an uncanny resemblance in its design to elementary school PTA newsletters. Playing butt-monkey to the Lampoon and Demon, Satire V has officially joined the select group of unread, unfunny self-proclaimed "humor" magazines guaranteed to leave a bad taste in the collective mouth of the Harvard populace. This freshman posse considers themselves real smarties by reversing the Harvard motto "Veritas." Backwards word, real clever...
Actresses with a wide range like Polley's thrive at Sundance because many movies there take risks with compelling, quirky characters. Where Hollywood favors vapid females whose greatest apotheosis is a kiss, indies prefer complex women who can also kick butt. "Independent films almost have a province when it comes to portraying strong women," says festival programming chief Geoffrey Gilmore. "They're not just the archetypal roles of the girlfriend, the wife or even the women who get together to cry. Actresses get to play the kind of fully fleshed-out characters who just aren't in most studio scripts...
...small part of me hoped I was. Because I would definitely be the center of attention at my high school reunion. "Yeah, Keri, I like it. There's a lot of paperwork, but mostly it's making speeches, erasing borders and working on my butt-kicking moves for the big Christ fight. Here's my card, babe. Call...