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...choreography and the flawlessness with which the dancers execute the extremely difficult and acrobatic moves. With unbelievable strength and grace, the dancers flip over and walk on each other, creating the effect of a human jungle gym. In the style of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, one dancer, Madelyn M. Ho ’08, nimbly leaps up a mass human staircase and later navigates her way across the shoulders of her fellow dancers. A balletic fistfight between Shee and James C. Fuller ’10 is particularly riveting and displays the incredible talent of both young...
...gossip and the misguided hope that what goes up will continue to go up. "Basically, the way stocks are researched is 'My grandfather's uncle's cousin's wife works at this company and says it's a good buy,'" says Mike Temple, a director at securities-trading company Dragon Capital in Ho Chi Minh City...
...movie, directed by Peter Webber (Girl With a Pearl Earring) and written by Thomas Harris, author of the novel, is a devolution and devaluation of Hannibal Lecter, the genius-madman-gourmand Harris created in Red Dragon (1981, filmed as Manhunter in 1986 and remade as Red Dragon in 2002) and developed in The Silence of the Lambs (1988, filmed in 1991) and Hannibal (1999, filmed...
...another time,” he says in a phone interview. This innocent Lecter, completely unlike Hopkins’ manipulative portrayal, offers a glimpse at the man that existed before the monster. “Hannibal Rising” serves as a prequel to “Red Dragon,” attempting to humanize the psychopathic cannibal that sends shivers down the spines of even the most hardened of horror fans. Harris worked on the book and screenplay simultaneously, a rare feat in the entertainment industry, and released the work last December. While critics were not enthused...
Oliver Stone is a muckraker disguised as a moviemaker. He concocts films?Midnight Express, Scarface and Year of the Dragon as a screenwriter, Salvador and now Platoon as writer-director?whose blood vessels burst with holy indignation. And he gets money for his Savonarola sermons because he films them for peanuts: $5 million for Salvador, $6 million for Platoon. This new one is an up-tempo dirge, an I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag, about his experiences as a young grunt in Viet Nam. Stone means the drama, the carnage, the horror, the horror...