Word: debutants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Leno hands over The Tonight Show to Conan O'Brien, ending a 17-year run behind one of the most hallowed desks in show business--on a program that has barely changed since its debut more than 50 years...
...other debut film, the gypsy-curse shocker Drag Me to Hell, looks to come in an O.K. third, with $16.6 million. Like Up, it's a film with no stars, but a star director of sorts: Sam Raimi, who did the Spider-Man movies and, ages ago, the Evil Dead cult trilogy. Credit Drag Me to Hell's success to a generous PG-13 rating and to the loyalty of genre fans who haven't been able to go to a new horror film in, gee, almost two months. (See TIME's video "Making Drag Me to Hell More Hellish...
...Crimson began its season with a bang, pulling out a huge 9-6 upset over then-No. 5 Duke. Freshman Jeff Cohen also made his debut, breaking out onto the collegiate lacrosse scene with a hat trick...
...Chen shared his award in 1993 with New Zealander Jane Campion for her film The Piano - the only woman to take the top prize in Cannes' 62-year history. Ironically, Campion's 1989 debut, Sweetie, had been unceremoniously heckled at the festival. That said, being booed at Cannes is a rite of passage: last year's festival saw new movies by Charlie Kaufman, Lucrecia Martel and Wim Wenders receiving catcalls. That hasn't stopped both Campion and Lars Von Trier - whose latest work, Antichrist, received the biggest critical drubbing of this year's festival - from entering their latest films...
...campus—which includes the Medical, Public Health, and Dental Schools—that classes and other activities were suspended due to suspected swine flu cases. After Monday night’s shooting, students at the College received their first emergency notification since the program’s debut last spring. But not all Message Me subscribers received the texts. Text messages reached about 98 percent of the 14,000 participants in the program, University spokesman Kevin Galvin wrote in an e-mail statement. But confusion was widespread, both among those who did not receive the texts and those...