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...handle it very well.”HISTORICAL FICTIONDespite this hard work to capture Beethoven’s essence, Harris admits that the film made a number of fictional leaps in its representation of his life.For example, the script tinkered with the composer’s deafness. “Beethoven had these conversation books where he would converse with people in writing and you can’t make a film like that,” Harris says. “You have to make the conceit that he reads lips.”But lip-reading...

Author: By Andrew Nunnelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Actor Harris Composes a Realistic Beethoven | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

Mention the Boston Police Department and the entire campus will erupt in outrage. Talk about how a last-minute call at Princeton sullied the Crimson’s chances at an Ivy title and you fall on deaf ears...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Game Can't Top Oklahoma Football | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

...Oscar buzz for spinning a wider web: an American couple vacationing in Morocco; the goatherd boy who, testing a new rifle by firing it at the tourists' bus, hits the wife; the couple's nanny, who takes their children on a disastrous day trip to Mexico; and the deaf Japanese girl improbably connected to all these events. TV dramas like Lost and Heroes have global ensembles whose lives are intertwined before they ever meet. One man's winning lottery numbers are another man's key to the universe (Lost); the fate of the world depends on a Japanese nerd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intimate Strangers | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...hold a tune, but I don't have a lot of experience beyond singing in my car. I feel like I'm at least not tone-deaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 13, 2006 | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

Deftones, or just tone deaf? True to form, the Deftones toy with disparate musical styles, continuing to reject the established rock archetypes to mixed success on their sixth album, “Saturday Night Wrist...

Author: By Andrew Nunnelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD Review: Deftones | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

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