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...surely merits one of those Life Achievement Awards the Academy passes out to distinguished film folk who never won a competitive Oscar and might die soon. (Recent honorary Oscars have gone to Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet and composer Ennio Moricone.) The slur stings any Jerry Lewis fan - especially Jerry Lewis. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Lewis explained the hurt: "Because they didn't think enough of my work. Because what I did didn't command consideration because it's slapstick, because it's lowbrow, because the Academy's always been cautious about comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry Lewis Wins an Oscar at Last | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...times overstated in its sentimentality, incorporates the evocative power of the plant’s symbolic imagery to encapsulate the experiences of a family coping with an unexpected death. Not long into the film, Trudi Angermeier (Hannelore Elsner) discovers that her husband Rudi (Elmar Wepper) is going to die. Concealing this fact, she convinces him that they need a vacation, but then unexpectedly dies herself on the Baltic Coast. Initially unable to relinquish his grief, the aging Rudi travels to Japan carrying all his money and a suitcase of his wife’s clothing in an attempt to transport...

Author: By Eunice Y. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cherry Blossoms | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...Housman takes it to Davis, big bucket, 49-48 Harvard. Every time at Princeton, Drew just gets to the bucket at abandon. He has 14 to lead the Crimson. Lin with 13. The team will live or die by this tandem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIVE BLOG: Crimson at Princeton | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...Goodbye Will Be Farewell” makes use of end-rhymes that can only be described as puerile: “And the smiling children tell you that you smell / Well, just look at me / A savage beast, I got nothing to see / And when I die I want to go to hell.”And yet, like gambling, there’s something addictive about Morrissey’s new CD, no matter how bad you know it is. Every song seems to have a few bars that hit it just right, as if the old Smiths star...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Morrissey | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...activity. Even Goody seems confused. "I have lived my whole adult life talking about my life. The only difference is, I am talking about my death now," Goody told the documentary crew following her final days. "I've lived in front of the cameras, and maybe I'll die in front of them." Her p.r. representative later denied that the public will witness the moment of Goody's death. Sometimes even reality has its limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jade Goody's Reality: A TV Star's Very Public Dying | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

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