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...nevertheless make improving social life on campus a priority. Friday nights at Lamont Library too often witness clusters of disappointed students ejected at closing time, forced to seek social pleasure only because of the hours of their study space. The College Events Board has relied on events such as Disney sing-alongs and the “Freshman Costume Catwalk” in attempts to spark fun on this campus...
...decided it was an inside joke they weren't going to get. "There's this perception that the geeks have inherited the earth," says Smith, "but if they had, Grindhouse would have grossed $100 million. It plays to a marginalized culture." A marginalized culture with a big stick. When Disney tried to market the sweetly sad Bridge to Terabithia as the next Narnia, the Web was awash with fanboy invective, not for the film but for the trailer's misleading emphasis on fantasy. In the end Terabithia did respectably with family audiences, earning more than $100 million worldwide...
...learn now how to pronounce the kid's name (it's Shy-yuh La-Buff) because it looks as if he's going to be around for a while. The son of a mime and a ballerina, he first got noticed as the star of the Disney Channel's Even Stevens and the big-screen adaptation of the teen-lit hit Holes. But he's growing up; he had a nude LSD-trip scene in Bobby, and his new thriller, Disturbia, just beat Halle Berry and Bruce Willis' Perfect Stranger at the box office...
...ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for example, he argues that Christian-American faith works to support the Israelis, while economic concerns fall in favor of the Arabs. Rather than informing the American people about the Middle East, popular depictions by everyone from Mark Twain to Edith Wharton to Disney tend to propagate a fantastic image of the region...
...Mexican expeditionary force, organized after Mexico declared war on the Axis powers, which trained in the U.S. and then flew combat missions in the Philippines. Only five members of the squadron are still alive and one of them, pilot Reynaldo Perez Gallardo, nicknamed "Pancho Pistolar" after a Disney character, tells his story on the website. For critics of Ken Burns' latest effort, the point is that stories such as those of Gallardo should become part of the national memory when America honors its Greatest Generation...