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...Perhaps best was the gut-busting Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson taped intro to the Costume Design award, with Stiller, dressed as a dwarf from The Lord of the Rings, radiating his patented passive-aggressive anger ("I look like a freakin' ZZ Top troll boy"). It was such a good piece, in fact, that it could have come from the MTV Movie Awards, which the Academy could still learn a thing or a hundred from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Oscar™ for Shameless Self-Congratulation Goes to... | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

After all, the EU’s “long-term goal is to bring all the democracies of Europe together.” This goal cannot dwarf the EU’s foremost concern: to maintain shared security. Given this modus operandi, it seems implausible to expect that the EU will take in Serbia and Montenegro...

Author: By Christine A. Telyan, | Title: The End of Yugoslavia | 3/19/2002 | See Source »

Because cockfighting and dwarf tossing are illegal, Fox has devised another way to lure viewers: Celebrity Boxing. In a prime-time special to air March 13, Long Island Lolita AMY FISHER, above, will duke it out with former Olympic skater TONYA HARDING. It's hard to know whom to put your money on in this fight. Fisher did time for shooting ex-lover Joey Buttafuoco's wife, but Harding was once arrested for assaulting a boyfriend (not to mention that whole Nancy Kerrigan business). The two will go toe to toe in one of three taped bouts on the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 11, 2002 | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

While we’re busy siphoning off money from soft sciences like “physics” and “chemistry” you may fear that we are ignoring an even more neglected group: the Dwarf Studies Department. The fairy tale “Rumpelstiltskin” or dwarf cinema classic Willow would be perfect for conference courses. And what about the effects of dwarfish imperialism on Keebler elf poetry? The philosopher race that are the Oompa-Loompas? The lines of intellectual inquiry are almost endless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Queer Studies Should Not Be a Department | 2/20/2002 | See Source »

...Rock’s dwarf, Joe C., died last year, perhaps opening Rock’s introspective side in his passing. “What I Learned Out on the Road” and “Lonely Road of Faith” break new ground with digressions into the sad and soulful...

Author: By Thomas J. Clarke, James Crawford, Thalia S. Field, Andrew R. Iliff, P. PATTY Li, Michael T. Packard, Matthew F. Quirk, and Marcus L. Wang, CRIMSON STAFFS | Title: GimmeGimmeGimme | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

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