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...overcome.Similarly, Megan, who truly earns her role as a bitch throughout the earlier parts of the film, is revealed to have experienced a serious family tragedy. The death of a loved one, and the regret that Megan feels in its aftermath, allows the audience to better appreciate why this diva acts the way she does and transforms the most repulsive character in the film into one of the most sympathetic.Burstein edits the film together in a very balanced way, giving ample room for each student’s storyline to develop and interweaving animated sequences in which the students discuss...

Author: By Bram A. Strochlic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: American Teen | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...prurient tabloid variety: Sarkozy’s romantic liaison and subsequent marriage to Italian supermodel Carla Bruni. As the two gallivanted around Paris and jetted to the Middle East, Europeans were titillated. Americans, by contrast, looked on in disbelief as Sarkozy flaunted his extramarital relationship with a gorgeous diva, the former lover of Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and Donald Trump, who openly boasts of her “preference” for polygamy. And Bill Clinton, we exclaim, was pilloried because he got a blowjob from some chunky and unremarkable intern...

Author: By David L. Golding | Title: Puritanical America, J’Accuse! | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

Better known for her tabloid love affairs, plastic surgery and husky voice, transsexual Turkish diva Bulent Ersoy makes the unlikeliest political activist. Yet she has caused a storm of outrage by becoming the only public personality to speak out against Turkey's invasion of northern Iraq. So pervasive is the nationalist climate that Ersoy has been vilified for declaring - on a national TV equivalent of American Idol, where she is a judge - that if she had a son, she would not have sent him to fight this war. She is now under investigation for being "anti-military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey's Anti-War Diva | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...decision. His roommate since sophomore year, Daniel E. Disario ’08, says that the recent release of his single hasn’t really changed anything for Baek and his day to day life at Harvard. “He doesn’t seem like the diva-ish pop star type and he doesn’t want anything to change...We make fun of him from time to time about being a pop star,” Disario says...

Author: By Jenny J. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Korea Stardom for Baek | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...what it was like with ‘Pretty in Pink,’” he continued. “I didn’t know it was going to be an iconic coming-of-age movie.”According to Deutch, Molly Ringwald, a diva whose behavior almost prevented her from getting the star role, occupied too much of his time. “Mollie had a little taste of fame already. She was a bit of a handful,” he explained, adding that the studio was not partial to Ringwald...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Talking Love and Film at Kirkland | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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