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The life of a Hollywood producer is full of bizarre encounters with belligerent actors, eccentric directors, and hard-nosed executives, which makes for some odd-ball stories. Such stranger-than-fiction tales delighted readers in producer Art Linson’s 2002 memoir “What Just Happened?: Bitter...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Just Happened? | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

All these scenarios involve an element largely missing from The X-Files: money. That show quaintly imagined a U.S. government big and competent enough to mastermind global plots. Now the feds are scrambling to keep up with them. In Fringe, the villain is unknown but appears to be connected to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bodies of Evidence | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

Unsurprisingly, candidates include the head cheerleader, the basketball player, and Mr. Popularity. Then there’s Zisiadis, a student with a reputation for eccentric social experiments, including the curtained lounges he arranged beside his locker.

Author: By Linda Zheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Following “Frontrunners” | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

What instrument do you play? Well, I don't play an instrument. I'm the least musical member of a highly unmusical band. I do some eccentric dancing. I sing on Wild Thing. I come in with "you moooove me."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roy Blount Jr. | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

About 20 minutes into director Robert Weide’s new film, Kirsten Dunst asks Simon Pegg, after he steals her boyfriend’s seat at a crowded bar, “Do you know the meaning of karma?” He clearly does not, but after nearly...

Author: By Jessica R. Henderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People' | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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