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...After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard, Kozol attended Magdalen College at Oxford, but left early for Paris. There, MacLeish introduced the young writer to the more seasoned expatriates Richard Wright and William Styron, among others...
...Murs, a.k.a. The Class, Laurent Cantet's affecting portrait of a Paris junior high school teacher and his restless, demanding students. Immediately a cheer went up, as Cantet, his star Francois Begaudeau and the 24 kids in the movie swarmed onstage, beaming as if they'd all graduated summa cum laude. They kept smiling through Cantet's long, fond acceptance speech, then were joined by other cinema dignitaries - including Robert De Niro, Dennis Hopper and Faye Dunaway - who were there as presenters. Suddenly, les enfants de Cannes were movie stars, reveling in their group closeup...
...performs less than once a year on average, but David Blaine's is the most harrowing of jobs. The master magician-cum-"endurance specialist" has earned worldwide renown by pushing the limits of the human body. He's buried himself alive for a week, been frozen in ice and, on Wednesday, set a world record by holding his breath for more than 17 minutes. TIME interviewed the Guinness Book of Records' newest entrant about the genesis of his death-defying feats, what it feels like when your body starts eating itself for sustenance, and what stunts are next...
...once poised and loose, technically excellent and creatively free. But technique and creativity haven’t always been easy for Redman to reconcile.While he was an undergraduate at Harvard, Redman led a double life. There was Redman the Phi Beta Kappa student who graduated with a summa cum laude degree in Social Studies and a spot at Yale Law School. And then there was Redman the saxophonist, who listened to jazz constantly and supposedly only practiced when he jammed with his friends at the Berklee College of Music or the New England Conservatory.And as far as Redman was concerned...
Following on the heels of “21,” “Deal” is a similar movie from director Gil Cates Jr. about a college student-cum-card shark who wins millions in Las Vegas casinos. But “Deal” fails to capture the fast-paced glamour of high-stakes gambling that made “21” an entertaining (albeit superficial) movie. “Deal” does accomplish one feat, however: it presents an oddly dull view of one of the most entertaining card games in existence?...