Word: cinderella
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...course, is the most famous actress in the world and Hugh Grant the bumbling idiot we've come to love. The twist, of course, is that both actors add new dimensions to their characters, making the story just unpredictable enough to trap its audience. It's a reverse-Cinderella story that is surprisingly timely--if sadly unrealistic. But like the best fairy tales, it gets us rooting for the foppish hero. And a couple of the scenes ("whoopsiedasie") are Julia classics. And even I--a relentless cynic--fell for that amazing ending. Without words, without Celine Dion yammering...
...MATH GOOD) than football jerseys. "A lot of people don't care about football here," said senior Paul Dickson, an engineering major. "It doesn't exactly fit into the culture." But the team's ignominious run has aroused the curious. Said another senior, Abbas Ebrahim: "There's the whole Cinderella thing about the streak." As he spoke, Swarthmore scored on a long touchdown pass. The student section erupted. Ebrahim and Dickson bumped chests...
NICKNAMED Cinderella in tennis shoes Ghetto Cinderella (by father) (by media...
...comedy as the Russian moll Natasha in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. But what will she do with that darn dress? "It's not in my closet," she laughs. "After the scene ended, the wardrobe people ripped it off my body, and I turned back into a plain Cinderella again." And there's no sin in that...
...straddling wild one. Yet biographical trauma, even when packed with celebrities, cannot account for Marilyn's enduring stature as a goddess and postage stamp. Jacqueline Onassis will be remembered for her timeline, for her participation in events and marriages that mesmerized the planet. Marilyn seems far less factual, more Cinderella or Circe than mortal. There have been other megablonds of varying skills, a pinup parade of Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren and Madonna--but why does Marilyn still seem to have patented the peroxide that they've passed along...