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...Kargman ’08—the recipient of this year’s Jonathan Levy Award in Drama—has really learned how to connect with people, and not just the directors, mentors, and other actors she’s worked with. Kargman also finds earnest ways to relate to her fictional characters.“I felt a lot for her,” Kargman says of Theresa, the central character of Rebecca Gilman’s “Boy Gets Girl” and a role that has won Kargman national recognition and success...
...simultaneously humorous and heartbreaking look at the challenges teenagers must overcome in their senior years of high school. This documentary, which earned director Nanette Burstein an award at the Sundance Film Festival, chronicles the lives of four students—the outcast artist Hannah, the earnest jock Colin, the bitchy blonde Megan, and the acne-ridden band-geek Jake—as they prepare to finish their high school careers in Warsaw, Indiana.The heart of the film belongs to Hannah, who dreams about moving to Hollywood and making inspirational films—which is ironic, given that she is already...
...past two weeks, the Aliza Shvarts story has been picked up by a number of national media outlets. This coverage tends to presume that Shvarts’s project was remotely academic, which it was not.That Shvarts’s abortion adventure has been awarded this sort of earnest attention represents our biggest problem. In the academy, there has been such a rush to demonstrate a collective commitment to sociopolitical progressivism—to a tolerance of alternative sexualities and sexual lifestyles, that is—that we have suspended rigorous examination of these themes. Certainly, great strides have been...
...When Morris?s better self - the earnest and morally alert documentarian takes over - the film is very much better. He particularly wants to destroy the notion that the crimes committed at Abu Ghraib were solely the work of a few low ranking ?rotten apples.? In his interviews with them they largely come off as young, ill-educated, and very suggestible - almost as premoral as children - and he is not without a certain human sympathy for them. Their unseen higher-ups wanted intelligence (particularly about Saddam?s whereabouts) and did nothing to discourage any behavior that would degrade...
...Despite Clinton's derision of Obama as an elitist in recent days, her Indiana strategy has been hinged on winning the support of the state's political establishment. That began in earnest with last fall's endorsement by Sen. Evan Bayh, the popular former governor. She also won the backing of Indiana's Democratic party chair, Dan Parker, who, like Bayh, is among the state's 12 superdelegates. Still, the race is considered so tight that Stephen J. Luecke, South Bend's mayor, began a recent interview with TIME by saying, "Whoever our nominee is, I'm going to fully...