Word: ella
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...elevate what might have been six-figure art-house bombs to veritable box office successes. He often recommends ultra-mainstream spectacles as well, but that is a necessary burden that accompanies the position of head critic at a heavily circulated newspaper. The important point is not that he gave Ella Enchanted a better star rating than, say, Memento, but that he has built notable bridges between experimental filmmakers and mainstream audiences in a way no other working critic can lay claim...
...Star Swing Festival. Dynamite jazz and swing from some of the better musicians alive: Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Earl Hines and Dizzy Gillespie. Taped last October at Philharmonic Hall. CH.4. 10 p.m. Color...
...Staff writer Ella A. Hoffman can be reached at ehoffman@fas.harvard.edu...
...fantasy or insidious indoctrination, but Hollywood is discovering that it still pays not to fight the royal urge. Following 2001's $108 million--grossing The Princess Diaries, Hollywood has waved its wand and conjured a set of Cinderella stories for girls, including next month's The Prince & Me and Ella Enchanted, as well as A Cinderella Story in July and a Princess Diaries sequel in August. That's not to mention other fairy-tale projects (Shrek 2) and transformational stories like 13 Going On 30, in which a gawky teen is magically morphed into a fashion-plate magazine editor played...
...Ella Enchanted, for instance, is a spoof of Cinderella in which the title character (Diaries' Anne Hathaway, Hollywood's queen of princesses) spends her free time protesting the discriminatory anti-elf and -giant policies of the family of Prince Charmont (Hugh Dancy). What she wants at first is not love but to free herself of a fairy's curse that forces her to be obedient. In The Prince & Me (what, The Prince & I would have been too egghead-y?), Paige Morgan (Julia Stiles) is a workaholic soon-to-be medical student who rolls her eyes at friends rushing...