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...conference games are over and only eleven Ivy League contests stand between the women's basketball team and the NCAA berth expected...
...Eleven editors left to found their own paper,The Harvard Journal, which gave The Crimson theonly tough fight in its history. The Journal hadthe staff, but The Crimson had the facilities, thebusiness contacts, the tradition--and the edge...
...Eleven days before the election, the President is accused of sexual dalliance with a visitor to the Oval Office--an underage visitor, at that. What's needed, the spin doctor (a coolly cynical Robert De Niro) decrees, is a splendid little war to divert the populace. None being handy, one will have to be invented out of rumor and falsified electronic imagery...
...Ocean's Eleven (1960). The Rat Pack. Rat Pack movies are tough. Frank, Dean, Sammy, Lawford and Bishop: you try so hard to love them as much as they loved themselves. Ocean's Eleven is the prototype, and probably the best of them. Good plot (army buddies knock over five Vegas casinos), and Cesar Romero is great icing as kingpin Duke Santos. But it's stiffly paced and self-indulgent. Go ahead and see it anyway...
Another alternative surprise is Chris Cornell, former front man for Soundgarden. He, along with the artist Eleven, delivers a poignant rendition of Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria" in Old English. One of the producers, Linda Feder, writes that Cornell "felt very strongly about wanting to do a traditional song, a classical piece, something that might turn young people onto classical music." Who would have thought the same guy who helped pioneer Seattle grunge could sing so magnificently...