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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Because screenwriter Kevin Wade has no idea stronger than the old Cinderella angle, the movie must try to get by on clothes, decor and an appeal to our democratic ideals. Of course this nice, pretty woman should get to marry her prince. Isn't that what America is all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holiday Movie Preview: Maid In Manhattan | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

Heading into this weekend’s matches against perennial Ivy powers Princeton and Penn, the first-place Harvard women’s volleyball team was counting on some homecourt magic in its final homestand to keep its Cinderella Ivy run alive...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Loses Control in Ivy Race | 11/12/2002 | See Source »

...outfield landed in Darin Erstad’s glove Sunday night and the Anaheim Angels won the World Series for the first time in their 42-year history, the applause in Edison Field was thunderous. Disney, Anaheim’s owner, couldn’t have written a better Cinderella story: despite baseball Commissioner Bud Selig’s naysaying, despite the lack of big names on their roster and despite their relatively untried pitching staff, the Angels triumphed in seven games...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Giant Killers | 10/29/2002 | See Source »

...Today Yen is teaching ballet and is engaged to Hai. She is keen to act again. But if this Vietnamese Cinderella never does another film, she can always remember the day she traded her ballet slipper for a glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quiet Vietnamese | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...only ambition was to be the best ballerina in Ho Chi Minh City. But her boyfriend, Ngo Quang Hai, is an actor. And one day she accompanied him to an audition for The Quiet American. Yen's simmering stillness caught a casting director's eye?isn't this how Cinderella stories go??and she was introduced to director Phil Noyce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quiet Vietnamese | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

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