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Elle Fanning, the star of Phoebe in Wonderland, turns 11 this April. She made her debut at two, playing a younger version of her sister Dakota's character in I Am Sam, and already has 27 movie and television credits. To be so experienced as a child actor can translate on screen to a preternatural poise that, while admirably skilled, tends to creep out us mere mortals. But in her first real starring role as a troubled, Alice in Wonderland-obsessed 9-year-old, Fanning gives the kind of heartbreaking performance that makes you want to yank...
JIMMY FALLON'S late-night debut meets low expectations...
...season in style this weekend at the Quality Inn & Suites Invitational in Denton, Texas. The Crimson (2-2) split its matches, taking one game apiece from Kansas (7-11) and host North Texas (10-7). Both victories were last-out walk-off thrillers made possible by the outstanding debut of freshman pitcher Rachel Brown.“Our coaches told us that pitching wins games, but a great team can win it in the bottom of the seventh,” Brown said. “We can do this, we can expect wins like this, and I think...
...that their music was derivative, and that the funniest thing about them were their haircuts. It was the last gasp of an adult establishment that felt secure in dismissing anything new, scorning anything young; and the Beatles were both. (George Harrison, when he and his mates made their Sullivan debut, was younger than Kevin Jonas is now.) In the intervening decades, the mainstream has learned its lesson: not to deride what kids love but to embrace and exploit it. Just like Disney...
...movie debut of its first boy-band sensation, Disney has followed the Beatles template. JB 3D is basically A Hard Day's Night, but with the proportion of onstage to backstage material reversed: more of the former, less of the latter. It's constructed as a day in the life, following the lads from early morning through some guest appearances, an interlude in a park and then the big show. Like the Beatles movie, this one has the motifs of captive celebrity - the brothers lithely escape from fans chasing them down city streets - and of the stars taking their fame...