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Bruce D. Watson, a popular section leader for Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics,” will not be allowed to continue teaching next year despite the protestations of students, Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck, and incoming Ec 10 professor N. Gregory Mankiw...
Hayao Miyazaki has dreamed beautifully on film for ages; Japan's master of anime won an Oscar for his rapturous Spirited Away. Now he adapts a novel by Diana Wynne Jones about Sophie (voiced by Emily Mortimer), a Cinderella type who, under a witch's spell, instantly becomes a 90-year-old crone (Jean Simmons) and takes residence in the portable home of the birdman Howl (Christian Bale, speaking in Clint Eastwood's gruff whisper...
...listen to her language tapes. You'd think the 37-year-old graduate of Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art would be a dab hand at American accents by now, but you try saying such lines as "statistically significant disease cluster" in impeccable shotgun Seattle-style. As agent Diana Skouris in the Francis Ford Coppola-produced TV sci-fi series The 4400, McKenzie does that and more. The highest-rating debut on U.S. cable last year, and a surprise hit from Australia to the U.K., the show introduced agent Skouris exercising on a treadmill - which was just as well...
...sensual awakening both mysterious and real. But it's in her shift from arthouse to TV primetime that's most likely to cast McKenzie's talents in a new light. Shortly after filming Human Touch in late 2003, the actress flew herself to L.A. for her date with Diana Skouris. Interestingly in a show exploring "otherness" (and despite its unabashed cheesiness, The 4400 parallels the events of 9/11 and Guantanamo Bay with intelligence), McKenzie was asked to play against type. (In the pilot series, the clairvoyant 8-year-old returnee confesses to agent Skouris how she wishes she were like...
...summer of middle-aged marriages,” jokes Lowell House Co-Master Diana...